Kentucky is well recognized for bourbon, bluegrass, and the Kentucky Derby. When thinking of covered bridges, the commonwealth is not the state that readily comes to mind. Many of Kentuckys covered bridges were built by such men as Wernwag, Bower, Carothers, Day, Stone, and Long, but many of the names were never recorded or have been lost to time. Kentucky once was home to the longest single-span wooden bridge in the world and to a covered bridge through which a Civil War battle was fought. Time, arson, progress, neglect, and misguided maintenance have spelled the demise of the majority of...

When people think of covered bridges in Kentucky an image of the Switzer Bridge comes to mind because of its prominence in the media after it was washed off its abutments in flooding in March of 1997 and its subsequent rebuild. However Franklin County once had many covered bridges within its borders. This book chronicles nine of those bridges, including the one still found in Switzer and the ornate bridge that once stood in downtown Frankfort on St. Clair Street. The Through Their Eyes series celebrates the photographers and artists of yesteryear who captured these structures in images...