Rating:
58286
{99}%
2 votes
Lilly Bridge
Description
It is significant as an outstanding example of early 19th century masonry arch construction, and for its association with the Allgeheny Portage Railroad, which the bridge originally carried across the steam now known as Burgoon Run. The Allegheny Portage Railroad, a system of rail lines and inclined planes completed in 1834, was designed to carry boats from the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal across the Allegheny Mountains..
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Stone arch bridge over Burgoon Run on PA 53
- Location
- Lilly, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1832
- Railroad
- - Allegheny Portage Railroad
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Total length: 18.0 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.42390, -78.61889 (decimal degrees)
40°25'26" N, 78°37'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/701997/4477530 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cresson
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 88000785 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 58286 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 4, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- HAER PA-452 - Allegheny Portage Railroad, Lilly Culvert, Spanning Burgoon Run at State Route 53, Lilly, Cambria County, PA