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Washington
County, Pennsylvania
(WGN
38-63-13) (WGCB PA-63-13) (1880; relocated 1987;
restored 1988) A single-span Kingpost truss 31' 9" over a small
gully. Located: In Hanover Township Park, approximately 1 mile
west of Florence, Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. Directions:
In Florance, Pennsylvania, at the jct. of PA 18 and Old Steubenville Pike
(SR 4004), go west on Old Steubenville Pike (SR 4004) for 1 mile to Hanover
Township Park on the left side of the road. If the park gate is locked,
acquire permission to enter the park from the clerk in the Hanover Township
Building on the right side of the road. The bridge is located in
the right hand quadrant of the park. It is covered on its
sides and portals with barn red vertical plank siding and has three rectangular
windows on each side, as well as the eave openings. The bridge also
has a roof of cedar shakes and a deck of crosswise planking. The
structure rests on stone and mortar abutments with short stone and mortar
wing walls, and has an additional U shaped vertical timber support under
the middle of the deck that rests in the ravine. In 1952, of the
structures Kingpost construction, only the original weatherboard remained.
Today it is unknown how much, if any, of the original siding remains.
The bridge was moved by the County in May of 1987 from its original location
at "Devils Den" over King's Creek, just north of Paris, Pennsylvania in
the northwest corner of the county, to its present location. Restoration
was completed in 1988. The bridge has two commonly used names.
The Devil's Den Covered Bridge which was derived from a cave which
is hidden behind a waterfall near where the bridge use to stand that is
known locally as the Devil's Den. The current name, McClurg Covered Bridge, is from the family that owned the land around where the bridge originally stood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1979.
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