5-463: Mount Zion Covered Bridge was a 280 feet (85 m) long Burr truss covered bridge near Mooresville, Kentucky . It was built in 1871 and burned down in 2021. For 150 years it spanned the Little Beech Fork north of Mooresville on Kentucky Route 458 . The bridge had been closed to vehicular traffic when a new bridge was constructed beside it, but it remained a tourist attraction as
10-472: A 2015-2017 restoration of the bridge it was determined by the contractor, Arnold M. Graton Associates of Ashland, New Hampshire, that the arches were a very early modification to the bridge. As such, the bridge was reclassified as a Multiple Kingpost Truss with added arches. It burned down on March 9, 2021; suspected arson. This article about a property in Washington County, Kentucky on
15-453: The Burr arch truss is that the arch should be capable of bearing the entire load on the bridge while the truss keeps the bridge rigid. Even though the kingpost truss alone is capable of bearing a load, this was done because it is impossible to evenly balance a dynamic load crossing the bridge between the two parts. The opposite view is also held, based on computer models, that the truss performs
20-478: The National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Burr truss The Burr Arch Truss —or, simply, Burr Truss or Burr Arch —is a combination of an arch and a multiple kingpost truss design. It was invented in 1804 by Theodore Burr , patented on April 3, 1817, and used in bridges , usually covered bridges . The design principle behind
25-560: The longest multi-span covered bridge in Kentucky. Beech Fork, Mooresville, and Mount Zion were all accepted names for the bridge. Mount Zion appears to be the most used historic name. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Records from 1871 indicate it to be 280 feet long and 18 feet wide, but a measurement taken by Kentucky's Department of Transportation in the 1970s measured it at 211 feet. During
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