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  Also known as Emily's Bridge or the Stowe Hollow Covered Bridge, the Gold Brook Covered Bridge crosses over Gold Brook in Stowe, Vermont. The 49 foot long bridge was built by John W. Smith in 1844 and the bridge was rehabilitated in 1979. The last historic covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont is also the last remaining Howe through truss bridge built in the 19th Century that is still on a public roadway in Vermont. While the Gold Brook Covered Bridge is set aside a few miles away from the hustle and bustle of downtown Stowe, the big story with this covered bridge is steeped in local legend and lore. The Gold Brook Covered Bridge has stories that relate to the paranormal. Many people claim to have experienced strange events at the bridge and some even believe that the bridge is haunted. The covered bridge even has an alternate name of Emily's Bridge because of this lore. There are a few competing stories about the haunted nature of the bridge, all of which include a woman by the n...

  At 136 feet, the Herline Covered Bridge is the longest of all of the covered bridges that are located in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1902 and constructed in a Burr arch truss design, the covered bridge crosses the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River just north of the borough of Manns Choice and a stone's throw away from the Pennsylvania Turnpike as well. The bridge was closed to traffic in 1983, then was refurbished in 1997 and then was reopened to traffic. The Herline Covered Bridge was posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1980. Also known as the Kinton Covered Bridge, the Herline Covered Bridge also has a ghost story attached to it. According to the story, many locals avoid the bridge because it is believed that the Devil or some other body or thing has interest in the bridge. The story goes that a farmer was leaving Manns Choice and headed for home entered the bridge and got halfway when his team of horses stopped, refusing to c...

While the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in eastern Oregon came to be in 1975, this attraction has been millions of years in the making. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument showcases one of the world’s best and most continuous records of fossilized plant and animal life of the Tertiary Period, the geologic time period during the Cenozoic Era from about 50 million years to 5 million years ago that is generally regarded as the Age of Mammals. The fossils found across the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument helped define the evolution of horses, cats, and other important mammal lineages. The John Day Fossil Beds is a name that is generally applied to the Clarno, Painted Hills and Sheep Rock Units that make up the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument that totals about 25 square miles in Wheeler and Grant Counties, and more broadly, the more than 20,000 square miles of John Day Basin and adjacent lands that expose the fossil bearing strata from th...