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Lumberville-Raven Rock Covered Bridge

Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

Lumberville Covered Bridge prior to 1903 flood

Photo uploaded by Art S.

View this photo at bucksbridges.com

BH Photo #483278

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Town lattice truss bridge over Delaware River
Location
Lumberville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Status
Superstructure replaced
History
Built 1835
Design
Town lattice through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 705.0 ft.
Also called
Lumberville Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.40776, -75.03730   (decimal degrees)
40°24'28" N, 75°02'14" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/496835/4473017 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 83799 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (8,406)
Bucks County, Pennsylvania (266)
Built 1835 (21)
Built during 1830s (237)
Covered (1,990)
Hunterdon County, New Jersey (241)
Lattice through truss (636)
Lattice truss (670)
Lost (28,559)
Lost 1947 (44)
 Lost during 1940s (492)
Lumberville, Pennsylvania (2)
New Jersey (1,693)
Pennsylvania (5,828)
State line crossing (913)
Superstructure replaced (89)
Through truss (16,833)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,065)
Town lattice truss (309)
Truss (35,522)

Update Log 

  • September 26, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • October 5, 2020: New photos from Art Suckewer
  • October 4, 2020: Updated by Art Suckewer: reversed change
  • December 31, 2018: New photo from Art Suckewer
  • December 17, 2018: New photo from Art Suckewer

Sources 

  • Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

Lumberville-Raven Rock Covered Bridge
Posted October 4, 2020, by Art S. (Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com)

The covered and subsequent pedestrian bridges seem to be 5 spans, four crossing the river and one, the Delaware Canal on the PA side. However, the five spans seem to constitute one bridge.

Thoughts?

Also, Wikipedia has the covered bridge authorized in 1835 but built in 1853. I have it as built in 1835. I'm guessing someone transposed some digits in the 1853 claim and the authorization and build dates are actually the same.

Regards,

Art S.