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Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania
(WGN
38-36-32) (WGCB PA-36-32) (1874)
A single-span, Burr arch truss 96' 7" over Chickies Creek. Located:
On Sunhill Road (TR 889), between Rapho and Penn Townships, Sporting Hill,
Pennsylvania. Directions: In Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania, from
the jct. of SR 772 and Sunhill Road (TR 889), go east on Sunhill Road (TR
889) to the bridge. The
first covered bridge on this site was built in 1857 at a cost of $1,185
and rebuilt in 1874 a a cost of $1,620. When
first constructed, this bridge was associated with a local distillery owned
by the Kauffman family near the village of Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania.
The bridge is covered with vertical board and batten siding and has a shake
roof. An account of the bridge in Seeing Lancaster County’s Covered
Bridges, by E. Gipe Caruther, also refers to the structure as
the Whiskey Distilling Covered Bridge. Another name documented
in the Statewide Covered Bridge Assessment is the Big Chickies Covered
Bridge. Also known as the Sporting Hill Covered Bridge.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 11,
1980. (Oct 2004) |
