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Walcott Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Bracken County, Kentucky

Walcott Covered Bridge in Bracken County, Ky. Photo by Greg Hume
Walcott Covered Bridge in Bracken County, Ky. Photo by Greg Hume · Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

Walcott Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Bracken County, Kentucky, described in its record as bridge in Bracken County, Kentucky. Kentucky has 15 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It was built in 2002, in the postwar decades, making it the 7th oldest of the 7 in Kentucky with a recorded construction date.

Status check, 2026-11: The first bridge here dates from 1824 and was replaced c.1880; after floods in 1997–98 it was moved about 400 ft east and rebuilt in 2002, mostly with new materials. Published lengths range from 73 to 76 ft. Walcott Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 38.7333° N, 84.1006° W.

Key facts

Current structure built2002
Heritage designationNational Register of Historic Places listed place
National RegisterListed
Coordinates38.73333, -84.10056

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