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Mount Top Road - Bermudian Creek Bridge
Photos
Mount Top Road - Bermudian Creek Bridge
The Gazette and Daily: September 24 1963
BH Photo #451063
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony truss bridge over Bermudian Creek on Mount Top Road
- Location
- York County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built circa 1900; collapsed in 1963 & 1964; repaired both times; replaced in 1967
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio (probable builder)
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 53.5 ft.
Deck width: 12.8 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.04419, -77.01065 (decimal degrees)
40°02'39" N, 77°00'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/328475/4434598 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 85740 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 11, 2021: Updated by Art Suckewer: Added probable builder with approximate build date range based builder and type, moved location to old road alignment
- June 29, 2019: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
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Melissa,
I moved the pin to a possible location on the old road alignment. A bit more research is necessary.
I think the locals approximate recollections are inaccurate. Although it is possible that it was moved around 1900, I would read their recollections as the bridge was there in 1900. Given the design and it's wrought iron construction, its most likely from the 1880s but could be from the 1870s (Wrought Iron Bridge Co.'s patent on the design is from 1874).
Also given that it looks like a Wrought Iron Bridge Co. design and that Wrought Iron Bridge Co. built a lot of bridges in the area, it is probably made by Wrought Iron Bridge Co. (not proof though)
Regards,
Art S.