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Meems Bottom Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Shenandoah County, Virginia

Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States.
Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. · AgnosticPreachersKid / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Shenandoah County, Virginia, described in its record as place in Virginia listed on National Register of Historic Places. Virginia has 8 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It is about 204 feet long.

Status check, 2026-11: Built around 1892–94 (sources give different years). Arsonists burned it on Halloween 1976, and it was rebuilt from the salvaged original timbers, with steel beams and concrete piers added. It reopened to traffic in 1978 or 1979 (sources differ). Meems Bottom Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 38.7206° N, 78.6556° W.

Key facts

Length204 ft
Heritage designationVirginia Historic Landmark
National RegisterListed
Coordinates38.72060, -78.65560

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.