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Heikes or Limerock Mill, Adams County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-01-14
County: Adams County
Township: Huntington - Tyrone
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Heikes or Limerock Mill
Crosses: Bermudian Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 64'-7" overall, 56'-3" span
Roadway Width: 14'
Built: 1873
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 58.818
Longitude: W077 09.102
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.9 miles north of jct PA234 on Business US15, then 1.6 miles left on Oxford Rd. (CR1016) and 0.2 miles right on Willow Lane to bridge on right. North-northwest of Heidlersburg, 3 miles southwest of York Springs.

Heike's or Limerock Mill Bridge, Huntington-Tyrone, Adams County, PA. Built 1892
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Heike's or Limerock Mill Bridge, Huntington-Tyrone, Adams County, PA. Built 1892
Stephen Stroup Collection

Heike's or Limerock Mill Bridge, Huntington-Tyrone, Adams County, PA. Built 1892
Bill Caswell Photo, December 15, 2019

Comments:
County #99. On an old bypassed section of Old Zeigler Mill Road that ends at the bridge on its west end. The rerouted road passes by the east end of the covered bridge, following the east bank of the creek and no longer crosses the stream at all. Some maps are calling the rerouted road by this name and others call it Willow Lane (T585 in either case). A proposal in the April 24, 1873 Gettysburg Compiler stated, “Sealed proposals will be received in the office of the commissioners of Adams County in Gettysburg until the last day of May 1873 at 3 o’clock PM for the erection of a covered wooden bridge on the road leading from Daniel Trimmer's to Wierman's Mill where said road crosses Bermudian Creek near the residence of Hatton C. Kennedy in Huntingdon Township. For specifications and further information apply to the Commissioner's office in Gettysburg.” (newspaper courtesy of Linda Burns) H.C. Kennedy was found marked on the 1872 Adams County Atlas and was found to be the site of Heikes Bridge. The construction date has also been listed as “before 1852” and 1892. It is presently used for storage.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 19
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, page 13
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, June 2013
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, January 2007
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 98

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