On an early spring morning, someone went to the Corbin Covered Bridge in Newport, N.H., doused the timbers with a flammable liquid, struck a match and ended 158 years of history. When firefighters arrived, burning timbers were dropping into the Sugar River.
By morning, only ashes, charred debris and smoldering anger remained.
Once were 16,000 covered highway and railroad bridges in the country, nearly all built in the middle and late 19th Century. The most recent census, conducted in 1989, listed 871.
Covered bridges, often in remote areas, in towns with little extra resources to preserve history are the victims of neglect, accidents, truckers who can’t read height signs, the forces of nature including flood waters and fire.
The Corbin wooden truss covered bridge was rebuilt but sadly many are simply never replaced or replaced with cost effective yet ugly cement bridges.
Purchase a print and save a covered bridge
Purchase an art print of the Corbin Covered Bridge in Newport, NH by celebrated local photographer, Edward M. Fielding below:
Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print. Print orders are fulfilled by our partner – Pixels and Fine Art America. Each print comes with with a 30 day money back guarantee.
The prints are created using state of the art, museum quality printers and inks.