Bedford Co. Bridge #15

Colvin Covered Bridge

WGC8 38-05-24

Rehabilitated in 1996

Co. Commissioners: Norma C. Ickes, Chairperson; Dick M. Rice; Gary W. Ebersole

Co. Engineer: P. Joseph Lehman, Inc.

Contractor: Kee Ta Qyah Construction

History of the Bridge

Constructed around 1880, the Colvin Covered Bridge is one of Bedford ...

Homestead by the Main Road

Lee Hall Mansion is the only Italianate antebellum plantation house on the lower Peninsula. It was completed in 1859 and was home to Richard D. Lee, justice of the peace for Warwick County. In 1850 Lee purchased a 452-acre tract ...

Cedar Grove Cemetery

Cedar Grove Cemetery was established in 1831 as the first secular cemetery by the Town of Portsmouth. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The four-acre parcel cost $400.00 and was sectioned into 167 plots ...

St. Stephen’s Missionary Baptist Church

Organized in 1887, this congregation first met in a small wooden building near this site. The Rev. Stephens Smith served as first pastor of the church, which served residents of the Waters Park, Round Rock, and Pflugerville communities. Land for ...

Pascagoula Fire Fighters

On this site on April 17, 1952, Pascagoula's newest and most modern fire truck, on its way to an emergency call collided with and was destroyed by a train called "The Hummingbird". Assistant Chief Klein Thornton, Firefighter DeWitt Monroe, and ...

The Interurban Railroad Lines

Another distinctive era in the demographic history of the southern waterfront occurred when the construction of several interurban railroad lines along Front Street revitalized the area. In the first decade of the 20th century, several interurban railroads were constructed in ...

Port of Matamoros

The Port of Matamoros was established in 1824. Commercial cargo, shipped mainly from New Orleans and other U.S. ports, was unloaded at the Port and transported overland to Matamoros, Reynosa, Camargo, Monterrey, and Mier. Mexico maintained a garrison and at ...

Great Turning Basin

The stones in this plaza have been arranged to suggest the outline of a typical lock on Richmond’s James River and Kanawha Canal. Where you now stand was once a part of the Great Turning Basin which served the heart ...

Battle of Sailors (Sayler's) Creek

[Obverse]:

This is the Hillsman House, used by the Unionists as a hospital in the engagement of April 6, 1865. From the west side of the creek the Confederates charged and broke through the Union infantry, but were stopped by the ...

Crook Cemetery

James Crook established this cemetery in

1837 on land he purchased from Creek

Indians. In 1834, he and his family moved

to this area from South Carolina.

In Nov. 1837, Samuel M. Crook, grandson

of James Crook, was the first person buried

here. Although Crook Cemetery ...