details

Documenting North America's past & present covered bridges

Home

Uhlerstown or Lock 18 Canal, Bucks County

If you find errors in the data please contact Bill Caswell.

If you would like to provide information on covered bridges that no longer exist from your state, or adopt a state to work on, we would certainly welcome your assistance. Please contact Trish Kane for more information.

Inventory Number: PA/38-09-08
County: Bucks County
Township: Tinicum
Town/Village: Uhlerstown
Bridge Name: Uhlerstown or Lock 18 Canal
Crosses: Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 110' overall, 101' span
Roadway Width: 16'
Built: 1830
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 31.526
Longitude: W075 04.390
See a map of the area
Topographic map of the area
Directions: 220 feet south of the bridge to Frenchtown, NJ on PA32, then 0.3 miles right on Uhlerstown Hill Rd. at Lock #18. West edge of Uhlerstown.

Uhlerstown or Lock 18 Canal Bridge, Tinicum, Bucks County, PA. Built 1830
Fred Yenerall Collection

Uhlerstown or Lock 18 Canal Bridge, Tinicum, Bucks County, PA. Built 1830
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Uhlerstown or Lock 18 Canal Bridge, Tinicum, Bucks County, PA. Built 1830
Bill Caswell Photo, February 5, 2016

Comments:
This bridge is the only surviving Pennsylvania covered bridge that spans a canal. Hill Road is T443 on the 1950 Type 10 Map - T407 in 1991.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 66
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 82-83
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, November 2006
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 102

The images in this collection may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and research purposes.
If the intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate permissions from the owner stated in the image's credits.