The Covered Bridges - An Index

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.  

Clinton County

• Logan Mills (The last remaining covered bridge in Clinton County)

Gone But Not Forgotten:

When the Lock Haven Bridge Was A Covered Bridge

Columbia County

• Creasyville
• Fowlersville 
• Jud Christian
• Rupert
• Sam Eckman

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:

• Columbia County Covered Bridge Association

Gone But Not Forgotten:

• Benton
• Fernville
• Zaners

Lycoming County

The Bridges

• 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

Assorted Covered Bridges In The Vicinity Of Williamsport

Gone But Not Forgotten -
 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

More Info:

• Uncovering Pa - Visiting the Covered Bridges Of Montour County

Northumberland County

• 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

Gone But Not Forgotten -
The Dewart Covered Bridge was lost in the 1972 flood
The Northumberland To Blue Hill Covered Bridge was lost in an fire in 1923

When The Milton Bridge Was A Covered Bridge

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:

• The New Berlin Covered Bridge
• Franklin Roller Mills

Sullivan:

• Hillsgrove Covered Bridge
• The Forksville Covered Bridge

Union County
The 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

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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

Gone But Not Forgotten:

• Kuhns (Mummers Grove) - Conewago Creek, Hamilton Twp
• Ruggeria N40 01.131 W77 02.257

Armstrong:

• 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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