World Guide to Covered Bridges

The World Guide to Covered Bridges is published by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (NSPCB).[1] It uses a covered bridge numbering system developed by John Diehl, the chairman of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee. The committee first used the numbering system in 1953 to publish a list of covered bridges in Ohio.[2]

The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges has produced eight editions of this book. The first edition was titled Guide to Covered Bridges of the United States. Later editions have all been titled World Guide to Covered Bridges.

World Guide editions
Edition Issue year Editor(s)
1 1956 Betsy and Philip Clough
2 1959 Betsy and Philip Clough
3 1965 Harold F. Eastman
4 1972 Oscar F. Lane
5 1980 Richard T. Donovan
6 1989 Bill Heisel
7 2009 David W. Wright
8 2021 William S. Caswell, Jr.

Updates to the 2021 edition are available as a PDF file.[3]

  1. ^ "World Guide to Covered Bridges". National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  2. ^ Dr. James E. Reinoehl (1998-05-19). "The Covered Bridge Numbering System". Ohio Covered Bridge Homepage. Archived from the original on 2005-04-07. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  3. ^ "World Guide to Covered Bridges" (PDF). National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Retrieved 6 July 2022.