White Covered Bridge Festival

A festival site for the EQT Washington & Greene Counties’ Covered Bridge Festival, the White Covered Bridge Festival is held primarily on the State Game Lands adjacent to the White Covered Bridge. The festival features handmade crafts,displays, public information tables, horse drawn wagon rides, Civil War reenactments, Native American living history, alpacas, and food prepared by non-profits. Local gospel groups will provide music on stage all day.

The Covered Bridge Festival is the unofficial kick-off to the Fall festival season! Arts & crafts, home-style food, historical exhibits, unique entertainment & more – all amid beautiful scenery! Each covered bridge has a charm of its own that brings people back year after year.

Free admission and parking. Hours of operation are 10am to 5pm, rain or shine.

White Covered Bridge Festival: 2023 Schedule of Events

Saturday, September 16, 2023

•    10am: Flag Raising by 140th PVI & National Anthem by Bernice Jeffrey
•    10am: Music by TBA
•    10am-5pm: Kids Activities
•    10am-5pm: Wagon Rides
•    10:30am: Music by TBA
•    11am: Music by TBA
•    Noon: Music by TBA
•    1:30pm: Music by TBA
•    3pm: Civil War reenactors “Battle for the Bridge” by 140th PVI, 40th PVI Co. F, 31st VA Co. H (Barbour Grays) and Knaps Battery
•    4pm: Music by TBA
•    5pm: Closing

Sunday, September 17, 2023

•    9:55am: Flag Raising by 140th PVI & National Anthem by Bernice Jeffrey
•    10am: Worship Service with the Reverend Gary Whipkey of John Corbly Memorial Baptist Church
•    10am-5pm: Kids Activities
•    10am-5pm: Wagon Rides
•    11am: Music by TBA
•    Noon: Music by TBA
•    1pm: Music by TBA
•    2pm: Music by TBA
•    3pm: Civil War reenactors “Battle for the Bridge” by 140th PVI, 40th PVI Co. F, 31st VA Co. H (Barbour Grays) and Knaps Battery
•    3:55pm: Crock Drawing
•    4pm: Music by TBA
•    5pm: Closing

Food: Homemade goods made by local non-profits including fresh baked goods, pies, sloppy joes, creamed chicken, sweet and hot sausage, BBQ ham, hamburgers, hot dogs, cabbage-n-noodles, cabbage roll dinners, French fries, buffalo burgers, funnel cakes, fried bread, steak and chicken dinners, kielbasa and kraut, and more.

Marketplace: Many wonderful crafts including handmade wood items, homemade jewelry, floral arrangements, knives, T-shirts and ball caps, seasonal wood products, wooden toys, primitive and fabric crafts, bird feeders, salsa, honey, apple butter and jams, and much more.

Demonstrations: Civil War reenactors Living History Camp, Indian reenactors Dan Caldwell and “Ghost in the Head” portraying a living history of the Huron Indians of the 1700s, Antique tools, and Alpacas.

FMI, contact: Greene County Tourism at 724-627-8687 or email wcbridge@gmail.com

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