Photo
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Overview This photo, from the Historic American Buildings Survey, shows the covered bridge from the side Photo taken in 1939 by Alexander Piaget and Charles van Ravenswaay |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost covered bridge over Old Channel Whitewater River near Allenville
- Location
- Cape Girardeau County, Missouri
- Status
- Destroyed by a severe thunderstorm
- History
- Built soon after the Civil War to replace an earlier structure. Destroyed by a severe thunderstorm during the morning of Nov. 2, 1945.
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 90.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.21528, -89.76694 (decimal degrees)
37°12'55" N, 89°46'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Elevation
- 360 ft. above sea level
- USGS topographic map
- Whitewater
- Inventory number
- BH 21075 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- HABS MO-1325 - Allenville Covered Bridge