Covered Bridges

Silver Springs Covered Bridge in PA (Gone)

About Covered Bridges

There are many states that have covered bridges still standing. The state with the most covered bridges is Pennsylvania then Ohio.

If you have never been to a covered bridge you should make arrangements to go visit some. They are awesome.

I have a collection of over 10,000 photos of covered bridges that my grandfather took and are showcased on a website. These are photos of covered bridges from many states and over many years. Some of the photos that I have available are no longer standing anymore.

All the covered bridges are beautiful. The craftsmanship that have gone into building a bridge is amazing. They were built over water and creeks and done without modern equipment. They were all built by hand. Most of the bridges were built in the late 1800's and some are still opened today with traffic driven over them daily.

Many of the bridges have been lost due to natural disasters like floods, hurricanes, and others. Some were destroyed by arson. These are historical connections to our past and they need to be preserved for our future generations.

States are now taking the time to restore these bridges, and more and more people are learning about them and appreciating them. There are many festivals every year held by counties that still have covered bridges standing in them. It is expensive to maintain these old structures. Believe it or not many of these bridges that are still standing also still allow traffic to drive across them.

There is no way to really describe how it feels to drive through a covered bridge. The tunnels can not even come close to resembling the feel of a wooden bridge. With the tunnels you don't hear the tires going over the wooden floor and the sound the it makes. It is really unique.

If you would like to learn about covered bridges and the history of them, as well as seeing some awesome photos of them, don't hesitate to drop over to the main website and look around. You will not only see covered bridges but also grist mills, and barns.

Some Covered Bridge Photos

West Virginia Covered Bridge

Phillipi Covered Bridge, West Virginia

Claycomb Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania

Colvin Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania

Shade Gap, Pennsylvania

Ramp Covered Bridge, Pennsylvania

Vermont- Now a Gift shop

	American Covered Bridges Price: $8.61 List Price: $12.95
	Covered Bridges Across North America Price: $64.84 List Price: $21.95
	Covered Bridges of New England Price: $8.50 List Price: $19.95
	Covered Bridge 2010 Kitchen Towel Price: $7.95

	CUTLER (W of Kokomo), INDIANA, COVERED BRIDGE Current Bid: $5.25
	Covered Bridge 2010 Kitchen Towel Calendar Current Bid: $7.95
	Covered Bridge--Heartland Valley Village Current Bid: $9.99
	100 Covered Bridges Computer JigSaw Puzzles CD NEW!!!! Current Bid: $1.89
	Signed Segan 1961 VERMONT COVERED BRIDGE Oil painting Current Bid: $9.99
	COVERED BRIDGE OF KENTUCKY SIGNED POTTERY VASE Current Bid: $9.99

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Website is now live
I have worked all weekend on the website. But I'm happy to say that its now live. It's not totally finished but it's about 80% done. What we changed. - We changed hosting companies. The photos are no longer hosted by Smugmug. This is now going to allow us to have more pages indexed in Google, and you will be able to find more of the images in Google Image search. - We added some extra links such as adsense, and advertisers that you may be interested in. We don't collect any money from the photos, we are hoping that this way will give us enough money to pay for hosting and upkeep on the sites. - We have the site set up so it loads faster. You don't have to click through 20 pages to get the photo that you want. We have them all loaded on one page now. So far with testing it seems to load fast with DSL or Cable Modem. We haven't tested it with dial up connections. - We made less categories and galleries. We think it will be less confusing with less categories. The nice thing is now you can see ALL the galleries on EVERY page. So you don't have to go back to the home page to choose a different gallery.- Quick overview of photos. If you Want to see all the bridges we have in the county, you now can do it from one page. If you want to see a bigger version of that photo, or read more about that photo you can click on the photo and get the bigger photo and the history of the bridge or the photo. -Quick Links Across the Top. These take you to the most popular galleries. Notice: This will pull up all the categories with the galleries and will load slower while all the smaller photos load on the page. -Shopping at Ebay from the site: you can now click on the link at the left to shop at ebay for items containing bridges, mills, and barns. It will take you to Ebay to purchase but I did all the searching and will only bring in the most up to date items for you. This will change hourly. - About the Password Protected Pages: When at smugmug I had family sections that Grandpap took of the immediate family photos. These were hid pretty well there I still have these on the new site, but unless your family you won't be able to see them. There are MANY unflattering photos of our family shown there, trust me your not missing much. Whats left to do:- I want to organize the photos by years within the counties. So when you look at the zillions of photos of Ebenezer Covered Bridge, you can see how it changed over the years. and not see it being moved after you see it already set up at the new location. -I want to get more information on the photos, or link to Lost Bridges.org for all the information on the bridge itself. I personally feel that I will be linking to Lost Bridges because all the research that they have on the bridges, I could never duplicate it on my site. - Finish uploading and databasing the rest of the photos. This will be done over the next few weeks. It has been a long weekend for me, All the photos needed uploaded again to the new server, then all the information needed typed in again. So I'm going to take a few days off away from the site and work my full time job, then work on it again next weekend.- Correct spelling errors and other errors I made over the weekend. Mostly I probably have a zillion spelling errors. Sometimes its because I simply can't spell, or it could be because I wasn't able to read well enough the information off the slide. But then - I can blame it on the keyboard... Which I think I will. All errors is because of the keyboard. :) Sometime this week Smugmug will be canceled. For me it's bitter-sweet. If it wasn't for that site, I would of never had all these photos organized the way that they are. I never had any problems with them, in fact I would highly recommend them to store photos. The reason that I moved them is for the fact that I make no money off this site, and I simply couldn't afford to host them there any longer. If you are looking for a site to host your photos, do consider SmugMug. You will not be unhappy at all. If you have a problem or a technical question they will respond to you in a matter of hours, not days like most places. I hope that you like the new site. I am very pleased with the way it turned out for being done so quick. I think it's much better layout and easier to navigate. If you would like to show some of the photos on your site, you can contact me at fmyphotos@gmail.com and I will work with you to get them to you. If you notice that all photos are now able to be saved to your computer, I am not even going to protect them from being downloaded at this time. But if you do snatch a picture from me, please at least give credit back to the site. Thanks!Judy www.fmyphotos.com - 13 months ago
Website Updating
Over Thanksgiving day weekend I will be moving FMY Photos to a new host and it will have a new look! I hope to have it live by December 1st, with most of the photos move over by then. Today I started the long process, and Murphy's Law is right here with me today. Anything and Everything that could go wrong has. But I think I have it mostly figured out, and should be able to move right along with building the site this weekend. At the new site, I still have a link to Smugmug where the photos are still hosted at this time. It's just too expensive to keep them there, so I have no choice but to move them if I want to still show them. So if you try to get to FMY PHOTOS and see a new design, or a half-done website this is why. It's still a work in progress. And Right now I am working full time, so it's going to take about a week to move everything over to the new site. Unfortunately I have no choice but to have the site live while I am doing this. So you may see some pretty weird things while I am fixing things. But it will all be worth it.www.fmyphotos.com - 13 months ago
Photos will be used in Documentry
I am in contact with someone who wants to use some of the photos for a documentry. I am excited that his photos will be in film! I can hardly wait. They will start out with the Washington County PA photoe which there are allot of them, and then move on to other counties. I will update you when the documentry is finished and will give links!www.fmyphotos.com - 2 years ago