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Bittenbender Covered Bridge 38-40-01x
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Bittenbender Covered Bridge
Photo posted to Wikipedia by user JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
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BH Photo #277770
Description
This was the last remaining covered bridge in Luzerne County. Destroyed by a no name flood in 2006.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Queenpost through truss bridge over Huntington Creek on Path
- Location
- Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built 1888; Ku Klux Klan attempted to burn 1927; Destroyed by flood June 28, 2006
- Design
- Queenpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 75.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.18086, -76.22485 (decimal degrees)
41°10'51" N, 76°13'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/397268/4559558 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Shickshinny
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 80003563 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 38-40-01x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 60123 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 12, 2014: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- March 5, 2014: Added by Dave King