books.google.com - During the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries, the erection of nearly one thousand covered bridges was recorded in New England's archives. However, the ravages of time, storms, floods, neglect, and vandals have reduced the remaining historic, authentic covered bridges to fewer than...http://books.google.com/books/about/New_England_s_covered_bridges.html?id=T3Rx1dN1oWAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNew England's covered bridges