The Licking River at Butler

View of Butler from 1875	Covered Bridge Across the Licking River Thanks! for this image to Ronald L Dunn	“Longest Covered Bridge  in the World, Butler”

 

Low water mark on  the Licking River	High water on the Licking River,  published by Ducker's Pharmacy in Butler	High water on the  Licking River Published by Ducker's Pharmacy, Butler, Ky.

 

Flood and Ice on the Licking, Feb. 11, 1918	The Ice of 1918

The ice gorge at Butler, 1918

The Daily Cairo Bulletin, February 7, 1884
“At Butler, Ky., the Licking river rose five feet yesterday, and is still rising.  It has risen nine feet at Park’s ferry, seventy feet above here.”  Indianapolis News, February 12,1884

 

Firetruck in the Licking From a Facebook post by Rebecca Ernstes	Both Bridges, 1937 From a Facebook post by Russell Whitson

 

Views of the New Bridge at Butler “Published by Ducker's Pharmacy, Butler”		The 1904 Renovation

 

Licking River Bridge, Butler, Kentucky

 

The Licking River Bridge, circa 1934
The above two images are from the Library of Congress' American Memory Site, here

The covered bridge formally opened on January 1, 1871.
Was it really destroyed by the 1937 flood? Find out here.
Was it really the longest covered bridge in the world? Find out here.
The top is removed in 1933.
Mrs. Florence Drucker's Poem, The Old Covered Bridge, is here.	A few short historical notes about the bridge are here.
Bids solicited for a new bridge, 1936.
A history of the bridge by Eric C. Nagel

That's Phyllis Hoffman Manuel on the normal bicycle, and Charles Stillwell on the tall bike, a.k.a. an “ordinary.” (Wikipedia). From a Facebook post by Julie Miracle, Ms. Manuel's daughter.

 

Burlew-Paul	Talley-Yelton
A part of the 1937 Grand Opening of the new bridge, these two couples were married on the new bridge.

The Enquirer's story on the 1937 bridge opening.

The Falmouth Outlook's story on the 1937 bridge opening.