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Little Gap, Carbon County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-13-02
County: Carbon County
Township: Lower Towamensing
Town/Village: Little Gap
Bridge Name: Little Gap
Crosses: Aquashicola Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 92' overall, 73' span
Roadway Width: 15'
Built: 1860
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 49.884
Longitude: W075 31.348
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 1.6 miles from the Palmer exit off PA248 on Delaware Ave., then bear right for 4.3 miles on Little Gap Rd. and right on Covered Bridge Rd. 350 feet.

Little Gap Bridge, Towamensing, Carbon County, PA. Built c1860
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Little Gap Bridge, Towamensing, PA. Built c1860
Jenn Caswell Photo, June 13, 2016

Little Gap Bridge, Towamensing, PA. Built c1860
Bill Caswell Photo, June 13, 2016

Comments:
6-panel truss. Steel grate floor. Depending on the mapping source, the stream is either Buckwha Creek or Princess Creek. It is a single span Burr Truss 92' long, with a clear span of 73' and a 15' roadway, built c1860, rebuilt in 1986 (a plaque placed by the county states "between 1840 and 1860, but builder and exact date of construction unknown").

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 72
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 16, 84-85
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, January 2008
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 104

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