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Valley Creek Bridge

Chester County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

Valley Creek Bridge -- Nove,ber 7, 3-10

Upstream side view

Photo taken by Raymond Klein in November 2010

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BH Photo #189375

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Stone arch bridge over Valley Creek on Cedar Hollow Road
Location
Chester County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1907 (Bypassed w/new bridge-carries a pedestrian trail)
Design
Stone arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 24.9 ft.
Total length: 67.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.05379, -75.50056   (decimal degrees)
40°03'14" N, 75°30'02" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/457305/4433847 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Malvern
Inventory numbers
PA 15 1053 0030 0283 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
NRHP 88000762 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 47163 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arch (12,055)
Built 1907 (697)
Built during 1900s (7,186)
Chester County, Pennsylvania (158)
Deck arch (11,293)
Have street view (26,796)
NR-listed (2,956)
 Open (39,782)
Owned by state (15,903)
Pennsylvania (5,294)
Span length under 25 feet (6,845)
Stone arch (3,040)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,272)

Update Log 

  • March 2, 2014: Updated by Dave King: Added NRHP info, street view & imported photo
  • December 28, 2010: New photos from Raymond Klein
  • November 29, 2010: Added by Raymond Klein

Sources 

  • Raymond Klein - Bookshelfthe [at] msn [dot] com
  • Patrick S. O'Donnell - 1 [dot] 991km [at] comcast [dot] net
  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Valley Creek Bridge Tredyffrin Townshp
Posted December 17, 2013, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Patrick,

The person who photodocuments Chester County bridges for HistoricBridges.org said she had trouble finding this bridge. She is going to try to seek it out again when the weather gets better, so it should end up online eventually (along with a bunch more Chester County bridges she photographed that I have yet to add).

Valley Creek Bridge Tredyffrin Townshp
Posted December 16, 2013, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Are you kidding?! I've never seen such high fencing on such a small bridge! I've been on bridges fifty times as tall as this that have shorter fencing than this bridge will have! The adjacent highway bridge is higher than this bridge! What on earth are they thinking they need that for?