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Grimes, Greene County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-30-22x
County: Greene County
Township: Washington
Town/Village: East-southeast of Ruff Creek
Bridge Name: Grimes
Crosses: Ruff Creek
Truss type: King
Spans: 1
Length: 31'-8" span, 38' overall
Roadway Width: 11'-9"
Built: 1888
Builder:
When Lost: 01 Nov 1992
Cause: Arson
Latitude: N39 57.27
Longitude: W080 09.58
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.6 miles east of jct I-79 (Exit 4) on PA 221, then 0.1 miles right on Green Valley Road (T546). North of Waynesburg and east of Ruff Creek.

Grimes Bridge, Washington, Greene County, PA. Built 1888 Arson 1 Nov 1992
Tom and Linda Burns Photo, September 22, 1985

Comments:
County Bridge #24. Per Old Covered Bridge Days of Greene County by Earle Robert Forrest (1953), the bridge was over Ruff Creek in Washington Township, on a township road just off Route 30019 (just a short distance west of the Lippincott bridge [38-30-25]). It had a Kingpost truss and was 37.95 feet long (31 feet 8 inches between the abutments) and was 12.7 feet wide. In Penn Pilot aerial photography dated to October 4, 1967, the covered bridge is oriented nearly east to west. A pickup truck was driven onto the bridge on November 1, 1992 and set on fire. The bridge was destroyed with it. What was left of it was removed in March 1993. Map 24 aerial imagery shows a bridge at the site which is scaling close to the 34' span of the covered bridge, as well as standing at about the same alignment as in the Penn Pilot photo, so it may be on the original abutments.

Sources:
Forrest, Robert Earle, Old Covered Bridge Days of Greene County, The Washington Observer, February, 1953.
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 48, 102-103
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, March 2008