Hogback Covered Bridge

The Hogback Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge near Winterset, Iowa. Named after a nearby limestone ridge, it was built in 1884 by Harvey P. Jones and George K. Foster[2] over the North River[3] on Douglas Township Road.[4] The 106-foot-long (32 m) bridge was designed with a Town lattice truss system. It was built with steel pylons to support the main span.[4]

Hogback Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Hogback Covered Bridge
Nearest city	Winterset, Iowa
Coordinates	41°23′11.3″N 94°2′50.8″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1884
Built by	B. Jones
Architectural style	covered bridge
NRHP reference No.	76000788[1]
Added to NRHP	August 28, 1976

The Hogback Bridge was originally one of 19 covered bridges in Madison County; there are only six remaining covered bridges in the county. In 1992, the bridge was rehabilitated for the cost of $118,810 ($216,000 today).[4] The Hogback Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Iowa

References

1. "National Register Information System – Hogback Covered Bridge (#76000788)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Hogback Covered Bridge". Madison County, Iowa Chamber & Welcome Center. 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2019-10-27.
3. Swanson, Leslie Charles (1970). Covered Bridges in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Swanson Publishing. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-911466-14-0.
4. McKee, Brian J. (1997). Historic American Covered Bridges. New York: ASCE Press. ISBN 978-0-19-521335-5.

External links

Media related to Hogback Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IA-93, "Hogback Bridge, Spanning North River at bypassed section of Douglas Township Road, Winterset, Madison County, IA", 11 photos, 1 color transparency, 8 data pages, 2 photo caption pages