Check out this image of a wooden bridge at Chautauqua, New York c1898.
Notice the creative and beautiful construction of this sustainable wooden bridge. The design of the bridge incorporated local materials.

Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Rustic bridge, Chautauqua, New York - Digital ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) det 4a31792 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a31792 - Reproduction Number: --- - Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

The image is Part of the Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection - Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955. - at the United States Library of Congress.