They would do it in phases. This was palpable to the community but the citizens still requested a steel bridge. The bridge was closed; ice bridges and ferries returned, and the necessary repairs were started for phase one. A main supporting cord was discovered damaged due to the river drivers. They hitched tackle to the bridge and used heavy teams for the purpose of pulling the jams away from the bridge. The work continued and the bridge was to reopen to traffic April 6, Spirits were high but the rain began that weekend.
Not a light rain but a downpour and the ice started to break up and run. It jammed on the island and the channel below the bridge and the water level began to rise, six feet in 10 minutes. At noon on April 6, the very day the bridge was to reopen two western spans and one pier were washed down the river.
The horror the people dreaded the most happened, back to the ferry and ice bridges and the lack of possibilities to cross the river. The communities opposite the town were without mail, telephone or markets. Sixty percent of the trade of the town came from the farmers on the west side of the river. Now they had to drive 24 miles one way to get to established markets.
This was a disaster. Within a month, the Superintendent developed new plans. The two western spans, the west abutment and the one pier be replaced with wood as phase one with the new pier made with concrete. The next phase built remaining piers of concrete and the bridge moved from the wooden piers onto the new concrete piers. And the final phase would be to cover the entire bridge with wood.
Eleven months later the first phase was completed and on March 1, it was reported the bridge was open to the public. By September the new concrete piers were finished. All bridge spans were elevated 30 inches and moved westward 20 feet on to the new piers by October 20th and done without any interruption to traffic. Covering the bridge began immediately and was completed by December Almost immediately after the bridge was covered there was no traffic over the bridge after dark.
Parents were concerned for their daughters. A striking feature in the New Brunswick landscape is the Hartland Covered Bridge, the largest of its kind in the world. Its massive concrete piers support a long, enclosed wooden bridge, held up by Howe trusses. The designation refers to the bridge structure and cladding on its piers.
Hartland Covered Bridge was designated a national historic site of Canada because this structure is the longest covered bridge extant in the world. Miller replied to Mr. Jones, "I have interviewed a great many persons since I got your last letter and have not found one in favor of covering the bridge. Mother Nature intervened. During the spring ice run of April , the two western-most spans of the bridge were carried away in the freshet. Temporary measures were needed - a ferry was installed at an old ferry site one mile below the village.
Motor boats and private rowboats were brought into service. Veniot for assistance in repairing the damage. Veniot is said to have preferred that a steel bridge be constructed to replace the wooden one. However, World War I was underway and the price of steel had rocketed. The minister asked the local delegation to wait until the price of steel lowered but they declined the offer and together a compromise was reached - the bridge would be rebuilt but this time, it would be covered to protect it from the elements.
The bridge was completely overhauled in Concrete piers and abutments were substituted for the cribwork; the new concrete piers were positioned on piles; five of the spans were repositioned on the concrete substructure; two new spans of feet each replaced the two feet western spans that had been swept away. By , the bridge was completely covered and had earned its title as the longest covered bridge in the world, besting the second-longest covered bridge, located in Norway, by feet.
Concrete ramps enter an extremely long covered bridge, The Hartland Covered Bridge is the longest such bridge in the world and one of the most recognized structures in Canada. It is significant both for its structural qualities, its contributions to transportation in the area and as a symbol of the heritage of covered bridges in New Brunswick. The bridge is recognized for both its individual merits and as the longest covered bridge in the world, as well as for its representation of typical covered bridge construction in New Brunswick.
While not originally covered when completed in , necessary repairs in due to excessive spring flooding resulted in the stone and timber piers being replaced with concrete ones and in the entire bridge being covered. By , it had been declared the undisputed longest covered bridge in the world. Notwithstanding, its construction represents typical covered bridge design in New Brunswick, reflected in the use of heavy-timber Howe Trusses structures and concrete piers.
Covered bridges were simple, economic and completed quickly to be functional. The large timber was abundant, another reason why structures like this significantly represent a period of time in the forest sector.
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