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Inventory Number: DE/08-02-04x County: New Castle County Township: Christiana Hundred - Mill Creek Hundred Town/Village: Wooddale Bridge Name: Wooddale Crosses: Red Clay Creek Truss type: Town Spans: 1 Length: 60' Roadway Width: 13' Built: c1850 or 1870 Builder: When Lost: 15 Sep 2003 Cause: Flood Latitude: N39 45.96 Longitude: W075 38.195 See a map of the area Topographic map of the area Directions: 2.1 miles east-southeast of jct DE41 on DE48, then 0.3 miles left on Rolling Mill Rd, and just left on Foxhill Lane. East-southeast of Hockessin.	Wooddale Bridge, Wooddale, DE Built c1850 or 1870 Lost during flood 15 Sept 2003 Bill Caswell Photo Wooddale Bridge, Wooddale, DE Built c1850 or 1870 Lost during flood 15 Sept 2003 Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection Wooddale Bridge, Wooddale, DE Built c1850 or 1870 Lost during flood 15 Sept 2003 March 21, 1966 Photo, Richard E. Roy Collection Wooddale Bridge, Wooddale, DE Built c1850 or 1870 Lost during flood 15 Sept 2003 Delaware DOT Photo taken shortly before the bridge was washed away. Wooddale Bridge, Wooddale, DE Built c1850 or 1870 Lost during flood 15 Sept 2003 Herbert Richter Photo, March 25, 1956, NSPCB Archives
Comments: This bridge was very similar to the Ashland Bridge (DE-02-02). At one time it led to a siding and station of the Wilmington & Western Railroad. It survived the 1938 flood and an arson attempt in March 1975. Steel I-beams were added in 1969 making it function as a steel stringer. It was rehabilitated by the property owner in 1981.
Sources: Lane, Oscar F.. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 1972, page 6 McNinch, Marjorie G.. Bridges, 1995, pages 55-59 Allen, Richard Sanders. Covered Bridges of the Middle Atlantic States, 1959, pages 42-43

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