Lee's Creek Covered Bridge

Lee's Creek Covered Bridge, also called the Dover Covered Bridge, was built in 1835 as a toll bridge on Lee's Creek Road just south of Kentucky Route 8 near Dover — making it, by a wide margin, the oldest covered bridge still standing in Kentucky. It runs 61 feet on a double set of queen post trusses on each side, an unusual modified queenpost design credibly dated back nearly two centuries.

The bridge has been kept alive through a long string of renovations: the Bower Bridge Company rebuilt it in 1926, the Kentucky Highway Department renovated it again in 1966, and it was raised to its current height in 1920 by a 15-year-old named Stock Bower, who would go on to become a noted bridge builder in his own right. Iron support beams were added along the way to reinforce the aging timber. A modern bypass in 2005 finally took through-traffic off the bridge, but it remains open today to local traffic, a rare case of a covered bridge nearly two centuries old still doing its job. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.