Holliwell Covered Bridge
Madison County, near Winterset. Built 1880, 113 ft over Middle River. The longest of the Madison County bridges.
1880
Year Built
National Register
Town Lattice
County
Madison
1880
Crosses
Middle River
Bridge Type/Truss Design
Town Lattice
Length (feet)
113ft
The Holliwell Covered Bridge spans the Middle River southeast of Winterset in Madison County, Iowa. Built in 1880, it is the longest of the county's surviving covered bridges at about 113 feet and uses a Town lattice truss. It appeared in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County and remains a popular tourist attraction. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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