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Union
County, Pennsylvania
(WGN
38-60-03) (WGCB PA-60-03): (c.
1825; modernized 1959; repaired 1998) A single-span multiple Kingpost
with Burr arch truss 80' 4" over Buffalo Creek. Located: On Fourth
Street, Mifflinburg, Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania. Directions:
In Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, at the jct. of SR 45 and SR 304, go north
on Fourth Street (opposite SR 304) to the bridge. (South Fourth Street
is SR 304.) According to a plaque mounted on the bridges interior,
the structure was "modernized" in 1959. This historic covered bridge
is essentially a modern steel bridge that has been built within the shell
of the original wooden structure. It has an open steel mesh deck
with broad steel guardrails. It rests on concrete abutments and vertical
steel girders positioned on a concrete foundation in midstream. It
has red board and batten siding on the sides and horizontal white clapboard
siding on the portals. The stone and mortar wing walls and concrete
capped parapets were repaired in the summer of 1998. The only openings
run lengthwise under the eaves. It was listed on the National Register
of Historic Places on February 8, 1980. (Sep 2006) |
