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Appendices A, B, and C were authored by Phillip C. Pierce, P.E., Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, Delaware County, NY. His articles have been reproduced from other sources, as noted below.
Appendix A "Those Intriguing Town Lattice
Timber Trusses"
Published in the August 2001 edition (Vol. 6, No. 3) of
ASCE's
Practice Periodical on Structural Design and
Construction.
(included herein by permission)
Appendix B "The Trials and Successes of
Covered Bridge Engineering and Construction-Hamden Covered Bridge,
Delaware County, NY "
Reproduced with permission of the Transportation Research Board. In
the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the
Transportation Research Board, No. 1792, National Research
Council, Washington, DC, 2002, pp. 44-49.
Appendix C "Rehabilitation of Fitch's
Covered Bridge, Delaware County, NY"
The article was used for the nomination of this project for
consideration for the 2002
National Timber Bridge Awards, April 2002
Appendix D Rehabilitation and Resiting of the Brown's River Covered Bridge, Westford, VT
Examples of New Construction
Appendix E A Tale of Two Bridges
Appendix F Smith Covered Bridge over the Baker River, Plymouth, NH
Appendix G Caine Road Covered Bridge, Ashtabula County, OH
Examples of a Replica Bridge
Appendix H Replacement of the Mill Covered Bridge, Tunbridge, VT
Appendix I Rehabilitation of the Paper Mill Covered Bridge, Bennington, VT
Appendix J Replacement of the Power House Covered Bridge, Johnson, VT
Figure 171. Brown Bridge, Shrewsbury, VT