Covered Bridges

*THE COVERED BRIDGES OF VIRGINIA*
It was amazing to know and see the covered bridges in West Virginia. In
Virginia, they began to dot the countryside nearly two centuries ago.
Spanning rivers and streams, their number grew to the hundreds.

Eventually they gave way to their vulnerability to flood and fire, and to
the technology that replaced the wooden peg with the metal bolt and the
broad timbers with narrow steel. By 1900, the overhead steel truss bridge
had become the engineers' design of choice.
Today in Virginia, only eight covered bridges are known to still stand. Five
have been preserved as landmarks and three are on private property.
Check out one of my pictures of a few of the covered bridges there. They
are just so beautiful!
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Blogged by San.

Schooling Days

This was a class picture of Standard VI....a long long way back...any takes
from anyone as to where i am???