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Fruitville Pike Bridge

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Description 

FROM THE 1996-2001 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIC BRIDGE SURVEY: The 2-span, 69'-long, reinforced concrete thru girder bridge built in 1922 is composed of two girders with an integral concrete slab deck. The paneled girders also serve as the railings. The bridge is supported on a concrete pier and concrete abutments with flared wingwalls surmounted by concrete parapets. The entire bridge was coated in gunite in 1968. The fasciae have large spalls and exposed reinforcing bars. The bridge is a late and altered example of one of the least successful standardized reinforce concrete bridges types developed during the first decade of the 20th century. At least 65 thru girder bridges from 1906 to 1930 have been identified with more than one-third of the examples in Lancaster County where their use was forwarded by county engineer F. H. Shaw beginning before 1910. The bridge is not historically or technologically distinguished by its setting or context.

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Concrete pony/through girder bridge over Chickies Creek on Fruitville Pike (PA-772)
Location
Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built 1922
Builders
- F. H. Shaw (county Engineer)
- J. Miller Eschelman
Design
Concrete through girder.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 30.8 ft.
Total length: 68.9 ft.
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
Also called
Chickies Creek Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.15833, -76.38778   (decimal degrees)
40°09'30" N, 76°23'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/381811/4446254 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Manheim
Inventory numbers
PA 36 0772 0300 0475 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 45984 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 47257 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2009)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 12.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
5,054

Categories 

Built 1922 (466)
Built during 1920s (7,046)
Concrete girder (527)
F. H. Shaw (7)
Girder (3,288)
Have street view (10,035)
J. Miller Eschelman (2)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (121)
Lost (10,492)
Lost 2010 (255)
 Lost during 2010s (704)
Manheim, Pennsylvania (1)
Owned by state (9,852)
Pennsylvania (3,045)
Replaced by new bridge (7,216)
Span length 25-50 feet (10,104)
Structurally deficient (16,728)
Through girder (1,147)
Total length 50-75 feet (6,907)

Update Log 

  • May 28, 2012: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added builder and description
  • December 7, 2010: Added by Nathan Holth

Sources 

  • Nathan Holth
  • Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com

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