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Through Their Eyes: Covered Bridges of Bourbon County, Kentucky

by Melissa C. Jurgensen

A visual and oral-history record of Bourbon County’s lost bridges

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A visual and oral-history record of Bourbon County’s lost bridges

Once home to twenty-seven covered bridges, Bourbon County now retains only one still carrying traffic. This volume documents fourteen of those structures through historical photographs and the recollections of local residents, placing individual bridges within the county’s roads, communities, and remembered past. The book’s photographic focus is paired with oral histories that preserve details beyond the surviving structures themselves, while the series foregrounds earlier photographers whose images kept a record of bridges that no longer stand.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Regional-history readers interested in Bourbon County and Kentucky
  • Photography enthusiasts drawn to historical images and documentary collections
  • Readers interested in covered bridges and local oral history

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Covered bridgesBourbon County historyHistorical photographyOral historyPreservation and memory

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Book overview

The winding roads that snake their way through the rolling hills of Bourbon County wereonce dotted with twenty seven covered bridges, one of the highest concentrations in the state.From the massive two-lane Wernwag structure found at the Paris city limits to the smallestbridge which crossed Pretty Run on the Clintonville-North Middletown Road each bridgehad their own unique characteristics and place in history. Out of the twenty seven bridgesonly one remains today, still carrying traffic on Colville Road as it has since 1877. This book is a photographic journey through the "lives" of fourteen of these bridges, interwoven with oral histories of Bourbon Countians who remember these bridges from yesterday.The Through Their Eyes series celebrates the photographers of yesteryear who captured these structures in images to preserve them for all time.
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