Copeland Bridge
covered bridge in Edinburg, New York
Copeland Bridge, also known as Copeland Farm Bridge or Copeland Covered Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge over Beecher Creek in the town of Edinburg in Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1879, and is a small, timber framed, queenpost truss bridge with a gable roof. It has a 30-foot span carried on fieldstone abutments.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
“Copeland Bridge” enters the record as covered bridge in Edinburg, New York. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Copeland, Bridge and covered can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5168357. Authority coordinates are 43.221, -74.101. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879 and 1998.
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