Link Farm Covered Bridge
Giles County, near Newport. Built 1912, 49 ft. long. The narrowest covered bridge in Virginia at just 12 feet wide, privately owned on the Link family farm.
Link Farm Covered Bridge was built in 1912 by James Maurice Puckett to carry a farm lane over Sinking Creek, a few miles from its cousins the Sinking Creek and C.K. Reynolds bridges in the same Giles County watershed. At just 12 feet wide, it's the narrowest covered bridge standing anywhere in Virginia, built on a segmented tied-arch truss suited to its short 49-foot span.
The bridge has always been a working farm crossing rather than a public road, and it remains privately owned on the Link family property northwest of Newport, off Mountain Lake Road. It has never carried highway traffic and isn't open to the public, but it's documented by the Historic American Engineering Record at the Library of Congress and remains one of the more intact 20th-century covered bridges in the state, a reminder that not every covered bridge in Virginia's story was built for a turnpike or a town.
