Walcott Covered Bridge
Bracken County, near Brooksville. Built 1824, rebuilt 1881, 75 ft. long. Also called the White Bridge, relocated and reconstructed in 2002 after flood damage.
Walcott Covered Bridge, also known as the White Bridge for its painted exterior, was first built in 1824 over Locust Creek in Bracken County and rebuilt in 1881, serving the community of Walcott as a working road crossing until 1954. It runs 75 feet on a combination king post and queen post truss, built of poplar resting on two stone abutments, with fully enclosed sides that give it a distinctly barn-like profile.
A concrete bridge went up about 200 feet away in 1954 and took over the road-crossing duty, leaving Walcott bypassed but standing. The bridge was privately owned until 1953, when it passed to the Bracken County Historical Society, and then to the Kentucky Department of Parks in 1993. Floods in 1997 and 1998 did serious damage, and engineers determined the bridge would fare better moved about 400 feet to higher ground; it was relocated and reconstructed at its new site in 2002. Walcott was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and sits today about 3.5 miles north of Brooksville on Kentucky Highway 1159.
