Important information about searching the covered bridge database:

1. The information about the covered bridges can be searched by county, bridge name, waterway crossed, town/locality, truss type, builder, year lost, or year built fields.
2. The database is not case sensitive. For example, in the Town/Municipality field, you could search for Washington, washington, or WASHINGTON.
3. You may search in more than one field at a time. For example, put "howe" in the Truss Type field and "Connecticut%" in the Feature Crossed field to find all of the Howe truss bridges crossing the Connecticut River.
4. If no State is selected, then all states will be searched.
5. If a State is selected, then only the selected county will be searched unless the All Counties box is checked.
6. Entering a value in the Town/Municipality field will search both Town and Township fields in the database.
7. Placing a percent sign (%) as part of the text in any field will search for any entries that contain the characters listed. Otherwise, the search will only return an exact match with what is entered in the field. For example, entering Con% in the Town field will find Concord, Conway, Conneaut, etc. Entering Con in the town field would only find a town named Con.
8. When searching dates, you will have better results if the year is surrounded with %'s. For example, entering %1927% for the date lost will find entries such as 4 Nov 1927 and 1927 or 1928 in addition to 1927.

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