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!

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Assorted Covered Bridge Trivia

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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.  

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COVERED BRIDGE TOURS

  COMBINATIONS & COLLAGES

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A Dish Towel Featuring Pennsylvania's Rustic Covered Bridges, and a line from the poem by Anderson Scruggs	1978 Covered Bridge Driving Tour In North'd, Union, Snyder & Clinton Counties
FACEBOOK ALBUM Of Local Covered Bridge Photos		UNIDENTIFIED A fb post with covered bridge photos by a local photographer

COVERED BRIDGES  BY COUNTY

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The CLINTON COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGE

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	Logan Mills The last remaining covered bridge in Clinton County
	Jay Street Bridge Lock Haven Destroyed by fire 1919

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COLUMBIA COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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There are a LOT of bridges still standing in Columbia County!

As I re-organize this index, I'm skipping over Columbia county for now.  Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and the section is still here - just not yet reformatted.

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LYCOMING COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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Buttonwood  Blockhouse Creek	Cogan House  Buckhorn	Fraser  Moreland

Album Of Assorted Covered Bridges In The Vicinity Of Williamsport

NO LONGR STANDING

Shoemaker	The Lyons Or Price

Other covered bridges I have seen mentioned: 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

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MONTOUR COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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	Keefers Mill	Sam Wagner Gotlieb Brown

NO LONGER STANDING

	Cloverleaf

Note to self - Remember to look at the Columbia County List & Map

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NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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Deibler's  [Also Dauphin County]	Keefer Station	Krickbaum [also Columbia County]
Knoebel Also Columbia County	Pillow Herndon	Rebuck  or Himmel Church

Richards	Rishel  Or Griffin, Or Moore	Sam Wagner  or Gottlieb Brown

NO LONGER STANDING

Dewart	Delaware Run	Herndon
Milton	Northumberland	Sunbury

	Hedenberg Coal Yard RR Bridge Milton

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SNYDER COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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Aline	Dreese	Gross/ Curry's Corner North Oriental/Klinepetter
	Meisers Mill or Shaeffer

NO LONGER STANDING

New Berlin	Franklin Roller Mills	Hackenberg
Haines Park	Klinepeter	Kratzer

Shaw	Schnittle

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SULLIVAN COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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Forksville	Hillsgrove	Sonestown

NO LONGER STANDING

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UNION COUNTY

COVERED BRIDGES

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Factory	Hayes	Hassenplug
Hubler _Lewisburg Pennitentiary	Red Bridge

NO LONGER STANDING

Grove/Hoffa Witmer	Lewisburg	St Anthony St Billmeyers On Fowler Map
Shriners Island	Naugle (Dales Ridge)	Spring Garden

Cowan

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RESOURCES

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The Nelson Fithian Davis Collection

1935-1936

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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Columbia County

• Creasyville
• Fowlersville 
• Hollingshead
• 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

Columbia County Covered Bridge #31 over Roaring Creek

Columbia County Bridge 43 over West Creek near Benton, Columbia County, 1936

Columbia County Bridge 127 Over Pine Creek

Outside Of the Central Susquehanna Valley:

(Complete Index Is Still In Progress )

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

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