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Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Cocalico Creek on Rettew Mill Road in Ephrata
- Location
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1891
- Design
- Covered Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 62.0 ft.
Total length: 64.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980
- Also called
- Rettew's Mill Covered Bridge
Guy Bard Covered Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.16992, -76.20481 (decimal degrees)
40°10'12" N, 76°12'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/397412/4447312 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Ephrata
- Inventory numbers
- PA 36 7218 0656 0505 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
NRHP 80003518 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 38-36-13 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 31099 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 4,400
Sources
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
Comments
Rettew Mill Road Bridge
This bridge was dismantled in the fall of 2006 for its planned relocation to a new site about 1 1/2 miles downsteam. Later this year or in 2008, the covered bridge will be reconstructed on Middle Creek Road where it crosses Cocalico Creek. A new bridge has been built at its original site.
The historic name for this bridge is Keller's Covered Bridge, after the owner of the mill that was lcoated adjacent to its site. Many other webistes refer to this bridge by this name, not Rettew MIll Road Bridge.