2008 White Covered Bridge Festival

Title:
2008 White Covered Bridge Festival

Description:
* Entertainment: o Gospel music Saturday: New Genesis, Heather Smith, Heart-Beat, Sandy Lusco, Family Faith Ministry, Fairdale Free Methodist Group, and others; o Sunday: Amanda Frampton, Free Spirit, Crimson Stream, Life's Railroad and others. * Special Activities: o Greene Township celebration of 225 years organized; Civil War Re-enactors camp with living history and "Battle for the Bridge", both days, by 140th PA Volunteer Infantry, WV Ligh Artillery, and 30th, VA Co. H (barbour Grays) and others, with battle both days, 3:00 p.m. o A Medical Museum with Noel Clemmer (battle surgery to be performed). o Old Time Photography. o Horsedrawn wagon rides. o Sunday worship service at 10:00 a.m. with Reverend Erwin Wilson (Children's activity area). * Demonstrations: Antique tools, quilt making, camp life/cooking during Civil War times, and story telling of "old things", Pottter and her wheel, lace tatting. * Crafts: Many wonderful crafters, fabric items, handmand wood crafts, homemade interior ordd and ends, ceramics, embroidered T-shirts and ball caps, poetry and much more. * Food: Homemade foods made by local churches and fire departments, fresh baked pies, cakes, cookies, and bread; homemade chicken noodles, cabbage & noodles, pierogies, hot sausage, ham bbq, hamburgers, hot dogs, buffalo burgers, meatball hoagies, cabbage rolls, cornbread and beans, baked beans, steak dinners, french fries, fried bread, fudge, funnel cakes, and more. * Contact: Cheryl Clark at 724-966-2357 or Sally Mackey at 724-966-5978. * Bridge History: The White Bridge is the longest of the Queenpost structures located within Greene County. There is a discrepancy about when the bridge was actually built. With the exception of the 1990 state survey which determined the bridge was built in 1900, all other sources suggests that the bridge was constructed around 1919. Charles Morris, a resident of the area who was born in 1911, remembers the White Bridge being built when he was a young boy and said that prior to the building of the bridge, there was a foot log across the creek. It stood just west of where the bridge is now located. If one wanted to cross the creek with a buggy or wagon, you had to ford the creek even through at times the water was too deep to permit crossing at all. In addition to being the longest covered bridge in Greene County, the White Bridge is also an exceptionally high queenpost structure with its clearance of 17 feet 6 inches. With no evidence of steel reinforcement, the bridge boasts an exceptionally high load limit of 4-ton. It is covered with white vertical tongue-&-groove board siding on both the sides and the portals, a sheet metal roof, and a deck with lengthwise vertical planking in the tire track area laid over diagonal crosswise planking. The structure rests on cut stone-&-mortar abutments with short, high-cut stone-&-mortar wingwalls. There are typical narrow lengthwise openings under the eaves.

Author:
GregAyersman

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