When they finished, the object of their unhappiness - the three members of the county’s Board of Commissioners - had lost their seats.
That’s because they had approved the destruction of four of the county’s six historic covered bridges in favor of ordinary concrete-and-steel spans.
Arsonists took care of the oldest and most dilapidated, built in 1873. But that only heightened the residents’ resolve to save and restore the other five.
At 137 meters, this is America’s longest covered bridge, over the Connecticut River between Cornish, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont. (Carol M. Highsmith)
The bridges’ elaborately decorated wooden superstructures did more than protect the stream crossings from rot.
Embellished with vinelike wooden tendrils and eye-catching overhung roofs, they resembled country cottages.
Not only did Rush County’s bridge-lovers save the spans, they inspired bridge festivals and bluegrass-music jamborees.
And cars and trucks and tractors still rumble across these picturesque covered bridges, demonstrating that historic structures can be a working part of modern day-to-day life.
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