North Carolina's Pisgah Bridge Lost to Flood

[WGN 33-78-01]

 

August 9 - The Pisgah Covered Bridge in Randolph County, North Carolina was washed away in a flash flood on Saturday night, August 9th. The area received between five and seven inches of rain. The bridge had survived hurricanes in the past but this storm was just too much to handle. Sadly the bridge was just restored four years ago.

The news of the loss was shared with the covered bridge community by Miriam Wood of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association. Quoted from the WeatherBug, ". . . a raging creek overtook a campground in Asheboro in central North Carolina on Sunday and a woman and her son there were narrowly rescued. The flooding in Asheboro also destroyed one of only two remaining covered bridges in the state of North Carolina."

The World Guide to Covered Bridges, 1989 edition, lists the Pisgah as a 51-foot stringer bridge built c1910.