Pennsylvanias Covered Bridges

[jeff of pa]

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Thanks for adding the Pics C_D

Have no Fear Just Keep trying & Practicing.
Before you know it it will be Simple.

Just remember most pics work Great around 50 KB Give or take a Few.

P.S. there is a Test Forum for Practice.
Your Top one, I resized to 38.3 KB
your bottom one 61.5 KB
yet the Top one appears larger
Go Figure that one :P

 

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[jud]

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Hey All,

This is my first attempt at a post and a post with pics. Thought it might be better here...if I mess it up not too many may see it! Hope to be posting some MD finds soon, if I can figure out this "crop" thing. Pics are of Mc Connels Mill in Butler County PA. Nice place!!!

Later...

If any of you are ever in the area you should check this place out. Beutiful park with a wonderful history. Make sure you cross the bridge up the hill and make your first right. There are some amazing rock formations up there. You'll be at the top of them, but you cant miss them.

I live not far from here and was actually just there today.

 

[goldie1959]

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thank you jud. did you have breakfast at johnson sisters cafe?

 

[goldie1959]

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THANK YOU jeff love those bridges

 

[baspinall]

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Jeff,

I would say that bridge your questioning is located where sand beach road crosses the river.

Brian

 

[goldie1959]

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c-d and jud did you go down in the area of break neck bridge? it's great , just drive down to the bridge and be careful unless your in great shape cause the walk up is a killer 30 &40 degree grades or more goldie

 

[jud]

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Yea ive spent much time around breakneck, and the old furnace, hells hollow. I grew up in the area and still live here. We go up to the mill all the time, take the kids out for a day of hiking. Plus theres some nice rock climbing across the river from the mill. My kids look for cave chickens. lol

Im not familiar with johnson sisters cafe though. Eppingers used to be up that way but it has recently closed.

 

[goldie1959]

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north side of 422 after the sheetz station and the entrance to mconnell mills. hope things are going good for you and the next time we are in the area we will let you and prospector 40 know .

 

[ole_grisley]

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Jeff great pics and had to say the one in Forksville is still standing and YES cars still cross it. If anyone is ever there be sure to check out the store at the end of the bridge, it is like stepping back in time. I was amazed by the rustic look and the old setting they display there. if I can get up there I will take some pics of the way it looks now. I felt like I was stepping back to the 1800's.

 

[goldie1959]

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i really appreciate this post also dave. where is the bridge you mentioned? goldie

 

[tokenhead]

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Jeff(and others)great pictures!!!,i'm sad to say that some IDIOT torched the Gudgeonville bridge near girad,pa.erie county...built in 1868,ONE of only 3 left in erie co.very very sad...good places for detecting,covered bridges that is!

 

[baspinall]

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Some IDIOT torched one near me as well, off Rt.322. They finally rebuilt it just like the old one which is nice. Usually they will just put in an UGLY cement bridge.

Brian

 

[tokenhead]

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baspinall...this torched one is already being rebuilt,i'm sure they'll do a good job!

 

[jeff of pa]

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original Hennigers Bridge in Elizabethville Dauphin county





Originally constructed around 1850, the Henninger Farm Covered Bridge spans Wiconisco Creek using a Burr Arch. The bridge was heavily damaged in 2000 by arson and rebuilt in 2003. It is open to foot traffic only and is one of two covered bridges remaining in Dauphin County. Two picnic tables are located nearby.

 

[jeff of pa]

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more

http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm

 

[tokenhead]

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original Hennigers Bridge in Elizabethville Dauphin county







Originally constructed around 1850, the Henninger Farm Covered Bridge spans Wiconisco Creek using a Burr Arch. The bridge was heavily damaged in 2000 by arson and rebuilt in 2003. It is open to foot traffic only and is one of two covered bridges remaining in Dauphin County. Two picnic tables are located nearby.

Looks like they did a GREAT job!,i think i'll run out to the one i posted&take some progress pics! Thanks for the great PIC'S!

 

[Ripper]

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Thanks Jeff, really neat post

 

[Don in SJ]

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This post brings back many memories of my childhood. I grew up within three blocks of the Schuylkill Ave bridge, which of course has not been a covered bridge in my lifetime, but just down stream of there, about a block up on the Tulpohocken(Tully) Creek, there was a beautiful covered bridge that we called the Paper Mill Covered Bridge and I spent many hours playing around that area and fishing in the creek for Suckers in the springtime. That bridge was torched in the early 60's I believe, it would have been a bridge to nowhere, since the West Shore Bypass(US422), destroyed the original road that was on the other side of the river.

One thing I do remember about the area, where the Tully and Schuylkill River met, a hot fishing spot by the way, the banks were all coal silt! My Dad said when he was a kid, the waters were rather filthy with the waste from all the coal mining up north.

Van Reed Paper Mill bridge was another site we used to ride our bicycles to and fish in that area, I believe that bridge was severely damaged back in the 60's or 70's when a tractor trailer tried to go across it, and it seems like it weighed a tad too much for the bridge.

My biggest memory of the covered bridges, is trying to climb up the supports on the insided to see the pigeon nests!

Thanks for the memories Jeff...........

Don

 

[ole_grisley]

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Here is The Bridge in Forksville Pa as it looks today and yes it is still in use, slighty tilted and I went there a couple months ago and we went over the bridge. and the store in the pic is like stepping back in time be sure to check it out if any of you ever go there. and just up the road is Worlds end state park, one great place to visit. and the bow hunters festival at the fair grounds, They used to ship in wild boars and the bow hunters would hunt them but some got loose. and who knows where they went. At the other end of the bridge is an old church I am hoping to get to detect come spring. The bridge is located just east of the rt 87 and rt 154 by about 1/4 mile and can be seen from rt 87.I think it is Bradford Co there but

 

[jeff of pa]

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LEBANON COUNTY