If you drive around our area for a bit, it's likely you will come across a covered bridge. There are nearly 50 of them in our six local counties!
Rishel Covered Bridge in Montandon was once thought to be the oldest covered bridge in the nation, but apparently that was inaccurate information. "At one point alleged to have been built 1812 by James Moore II, father of the founder of nearby Bucknell University, which at the time would have made it the nation's oldest covered bridge, and it was promoted as such on postcards and tourist brochures. Later research in the 1980s proved it to have been built in 1830 instead."
If the Rishel bridge was indeed not built until 1830, then it is 5 years younger than the Hassenplug Covered Bridge in Mifflinburg, and also the Hyde Hall Bridge in Glimmerglass State Park near Cooperstown, New York, both of which were built in 1825.
The longest existing covered bridge is the Hartland Bridge built in Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada at 1282' feet long.
In 1978 the Lancaster News published a route for viewing 15 bridges in Northumberland, Union, Snyder [one is actually in Clinton..] counties. I've added photos and information for each of the bridges, along the route they describe, here:
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BRIDGES BY COUNTY
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Clinton County
- Logan Mills (The last remaining covered bridge in Clinton County)
Gone But Not Forgotten:
Columbia County
The Columbia County Covered Bridge GeoTour
The Bridges
More Info:
Northumberland County
The Dewart Covered Bridge was lost in the 1972 flood
The Northumberland To Blue Hill Covered Bridge was lost in an fire in 1923
The Columbia County Covered Bridge GeoTour
- South Bridges - Johnson, Paars Mill, Esther Furnace, Davis, Snyder
- Central Bridges - Rupert, Wanich, Wagner, Hollingshead
- North - Twin Covered Bridges, Kramer, Patterson, Stillwater, Josiah Hess
- Roaring Creek Covered Bridge, Catawissa
More Info:
Gone But Not Forgotten:
Lycoming County
- Buttonwood (Blockhouse Creek)
- Cogan House (Buckhorn)
- Fraser (Moreland)
- Bodines Park
- Nunn
- Wild Cat Creek
- James S Fink
- Eichenlaub
- General John Burrows
- Cox's Run
- Happy Acres
- Sherwood
- Wooding (Corson)
- McKeague
- Lick Run
- Messner
- Irving Flook
Gone But Not Forgotten -
The Shoemaker Covered Bridge
The Lyons, Or Price Covered Bridge in Hughesville
The Shoemaker Covered Bridge
The Lyons, Or Price Covered Bridge in Hughesville
Montour County
The Bridges- Sam Wagner (Gottlieb Brown) 41.00204, -76.77369
- Keefers Mill 41°1′59″N 76°41′31″W
Gone But Not Forgotten -
- Cloverleaf Farm
- Anna
- Keefer Station 40° 52' 25" N 76° 43' 40" W
- Koch Rd
- Krickbaum (also Columbia County) 40° 50' 84" N 76° 30' 44" W
- Lawrence L. Knoebel (also Columbia County) 40° 52' 62" N 76° 30' 33" W
- Leitzel
- Mertz
- Rebuck (Himmel Church) 40° 43' 26" N 76° 43' 05" W
- Richards (also Columbia County) 40° 52' 04" N 76° 30' 48" W
- Rishel (Moore-Rishel) : 40° 57' 59" N 76° 48' 97" W
- Sam Wagner (Gottlieb Brown)
- Savage
The Dewart Covered Bridge was lost in the 1972 flood
The Northumberland To Blue Hill Covered Bridge was lost in an fire in 1923
Snyder County
The Bridges
- Aline/Meiserville Mt Pleasant Mills 40° 40' 59" N 76° 58' 72" W
- Beavertown (Dreese) 40° 46' 53" N 77° 08' 70" W
- Klinepeter/ Gross(Overflow) 40° 44' 83" N 77° 12' 66" W
- Hackenberg
- Schnittle
- Shaw
- Kratzer
- Haines Park
- North Oriental (Currys Corner) Also Juniata County 40° 39' 71" N 77° 00' 67" W
- Meiser Mill (Or Shaeffer) Also Juniata County 40° 38' 21" N 76° 59' 53" W
Gone But Not Forgotten:
Sullivan:
Union CountyThe Bridges
- Millmont Red Bridge 40° 52' 42" N 77° 09' 19" W
- Hayes : 40° 55' 04" N 77° 05' 48" W
- Hassenplug 40° 55' 46" N 77° 02' 99" W Mifflinburg Pa
- Factory (also called Horsham) 41° 04' 30" N 76° 54' 13" W
- Hubler (Lewisburg Penitentiary) 40° 59' 09" N 76° 55' 40" W
- JF Smith Field
- Hanselman
- Swain
- Gordon (Hufnagle Park)
- Hidden Creek Campground
- Roy Lloyd
- Irvin Williamson
- Shirk
- Wesley Forest Methodist Camp
Gone But Not Forgotten -
When The Lewisburg Bridge Was A Covered Bridge
Naugle (Dales Ridge) In Lewisburg PA Replaced by Hubler
Naugle (Dales Ridge) In Lewisburg PA Replaced by Hubler
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A Dish Towel Featuring Pennsylvania's Rustic Covered Bridges, and a line from the poem by Anderson Scruggs:
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Outside Of the Central Susquehanna Valley:
(Complete Index Is Still In Progress - Local Bridges Have All Been Added)
Adams County
- Anderson Farm Covered Bridge N39 58.52 W77 01.51
- Heikes N39 58.81 W77 09.10
- Jacks Mountain N39 46.04 W77 23.19
- Oakside Community Park N39 55.204 W77 14.115
- Quail Valley Golf Club N39 44.89 W77 07.78
- Sauks N39 47.84 W77 16.57
- Kuhns (Mummers Grove) - Conewago Creek, Hamilton Twp
- Ruggeria N40 01.131 W77 02.257
- Harry Parks N40 38.03 W79 34.66
- Baker Trail (Footbridge) N40 42.552 W79 29.304
Juniata County:
- Pomeroy Academia 40.49366, -77.47255 (Longest In The State)
Perry County
- Clay Covered Bridge
Schuylkill County
- Rock Covered Bridge
- Zimmerman Covered Bridge
For More Information:
- Pennsylvania Covered Bridges (A List of ALL the covered bridges in our state)
- The Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society
- Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, Evans, Benjamin D. & June R..
- Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges by Moll
- The Covered Bridges Of Pennsylvania by Susan Zacher
- National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2009
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