Perrine’s Bridge — Ron Schaefer’s 1999 painting
Historic Timbered Crossings
Summer 2025
Longer covered bridges were constructed to span major streams like the Wallkill, Rondout, and Esopus, shorter covered bridges helped bind communities in the Catskills where narrow ravines and rushing water made travel difficult.
Without exception, covered bridges provided practical crossings for widely separated hamlets that helped integrate rural economies based on agriculture with emerging villages and towns. Over time, many covered bridges were lost as they were replaced by ‘modern’ bridges constructed of iron or steel even as others were destroyed by flood or fire […]
This pictorial layout is presented here as a downloadable PDF file:
