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Henninger Farm Bridge
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Description
This bridge features Burr arch trusses that are inside the multiple kingpost trusses rather than the usual technique of sandwiching the trusses. It also has straight beams which follow the curve of the arch. SOURCE: "Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges" Evans and EvansBridge was bypassed in 1991.
Plaque at bridge site notes date as circa 1880 versus circa 1850 as it is listed in "Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges" by Evans and Evans
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Wisconisco Creek on Henninger Road
- Location
- Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built ca. 1850
- Design
- Burr arch-truss
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 1978
- Also called
- Stroup Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.57746, -76.78394 (decimal degrees)
40°34'39" N, 76°47'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/349009/4493382 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Elizabethville
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 78002386 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 52057 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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