Roddy Road Covered Bridge

The Roddy Road Covered Bridge was built in 1856 and is a king post truss bridge. This bridge is a one-lane, single-span bridge with a length of 40 feet, making it the smallest remaining covered bridge in the state.  The bridge rests on stone abutments. The deck is wooden planking, and the bridge is clad in red beveled German clapboarding. It is finished with a tin gables roof.

 The original wooden deck stringers were replaced with steel stringers in 1965 to strengthen the structure and increase the load capacity. The steel was replaced again in 1980 after the stringers completely corroded, then were replaced again in 1995, this time with galvanized steel.

 The bridge was closed in March 1992 after the roof and truss were damaged by an oversize truck. The local farmers and residents volunteered to repair and repaint the bridge, and it was reopened to traffic in October of 1992. The bridge was repainted again in May of 1993 to historic standards.

 The bridge was rehabilitated in June of 2025. This project included installing interior fire retardant, repainting the exterior, adding a fire alarm system, adding a timber guiderail along the roadway and adding a toe wall at the north abutment for scour protection.

 These repairs were short lived. An oversized truck damaged the portal boards on the bridge on May 18, 2016. The bridge was quickly repaired, but another truck damaged the bridge one month later, on June 16, 2016. This time the damage was extensive and included ripping off the portal boards and breaking the roof braces. The bridge was dismantled in October of that year. It was hoped that some of the timber pieces could be reused for a reconstruction of the bridge. Unfortunately, the timber was not reusable, so a replica bridge was built using all new materials. The new bridge was completed in April of 2017.