The Dellville Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge located in Dellville Pennsylvania. It is a 174-foot-long (53 m), three span, burr truss bridge over Shermans Creek, built to replace a previous covered bridge constructed in 1889 by Andrew Clouser.[2]
Dellville Covered Bridge | |
 The bridge in 2012 | |
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| Location | T 456, Wheatfield Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°21′49″N 77°7′0″W / 40.36361°N 77.11667°W |
| Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
| Built | 1889 (rebuilt 2019) |
| Architect | Clouser, Andrew |
| Architectural style | Burr |
| MPS | Covered Bridges of Adams, Cumberland, and Perry Counties TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 80003593[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 25, 1980 |
The original bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
On November 3, 2014, it was significantly damaged in a fire that police later ruled was arson.[3][4][5] In 2017, work removing the burned and charred remains of the old Dellville Covered Bridge began, and in 2018, the work rebuilding the bridge began in earnest. By July 2019, the new replica bridge was completed at a cost of $966,000. In November 2019, two men were charged as juveniles for the arson.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Susan M. Zacher (1980-03-10). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Rice Covered Bridge" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ "Officials investigating fire at historic covered bridge". ABC27.com. 2014-11-03. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
- ^ Jeffrey A. Johnson (2014-11-03). "Officials still working to determine cause of fire that damaged historic Dellville Covered Bridge". PennLive.com. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
- ^ Ali Lanyon (2015-05-14). "Midstate Mystery: The burning of the Dellville covered bridge". abc27.com. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
- ^ "2 charged with arson of landmark Dellville Bridge". ABC27. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
