Humpback Bridge

  • Also known As: Humpback Bridge Wayside

  • Address: Rumsey Rd
  • Vicinity: Over Dunlop Creek, SW of jct of US 60 and CR 651
  • Hamlet of Callaghan in Covington
  • Official Name: City of Riggins
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Humpback Bridge is an exceptionally fine example of nineteenth-century covered bridge construction, and an outstanding example of a timber multiple kingpost truss, of which approximately 90 historic (pre-1955) examples survive in the United States. It is nationally significant under NHL Criterion 4, as a property that embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen exceptionally valuable for a study of a period, style, or method of construction, and under NHL Theme VI, Expanding Science and Technology, Technological Applications. The bridge is the older of two surviving covered bridges with radically-cambered chords in the United States, the other being the Geer's Mill Bridge (1874) in Vinton County, Ohio. Humpback Bridge has been well maintained and it retains an uncommonly high degree of historic and structural integrity. It was inventoried by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1958, and recorded by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) in 1970 and 2002. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Of the approximately 690 historic (pre-1955) covered bridges surviving in the United States, Humpback Bridge is an outstanding example of covered bridge construction and preservation. - NRHP, 26 July 2011


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1857/00/00 Fifth (present) Humpback Bridge is erected at this site

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Particulars for Humpback Bridge:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Structure type Bridge
Bridge Attribute Covered Bridge
Area of Significance Engineering
Structural Design Type King Post Truss
Level of Significance National
Historic Use Road-related
Owner State
Sight Category Structure



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 69000219
Resource Type:
Owner: State
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: No style listed
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Engineering
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1835
Historic Function: Transportation
Historic Sub-Function: Road-related
Current Function: Transportation
Current Sub-Function: Pedestrian related

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