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Bernheisel or Hoover's, Cumberland County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-21-03#2x
County: Cumberland County
Township: Middlesex
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Bernheisel or Hoover's
Crosses: Conodoguinet Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 2
Length: 195'
Roadway Width: 20'
Built: 1869
Builder:
When Lost: 1959
Cause: Replaced
Latitude: N40 15.60
Longitude: W077 06.19
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: On Bernheisel Bridge Road (T574).

Bernheisel or Hoovers Bridge, Middlesex, Cumberland County, PA. Built 1869 Replaced 1959
Fred Yenerall Photo (1954)

Bernheisel or Hoovers Bridge, Middlesex, Cumberland County, PA. Built 1869 Replaced 1959
Todd Clark Collection

Bernheisel or Hoovers Bridge, Middlesex, Cumberland County, PA. Built 1869 Replaced 1959
Henry C. Falk Photo, Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

Bernheisel or Hoover's Bridge, Middlesex, Cumberland County, PA. Built 1869 Replaced 1959
Traugott Keller Photograph, February 16, 1955, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
10-panel truss. "The first covered bridge at the site was built in 1843 at a cost of $3,500. The second was built in 1869 at a cost of $2,885.00. It was a two span bridge with a length of 195' 3", a width of 17' 4" and a clearance of 11' 2". (Falk) In Penn Pilot aerial photography dated to July 25, 1937, the covered bridge is oriented east to west. It was replaced by a new bridge in 1959. Remnants of the center pier can be seen in Penn Pilot, dated to August 13, 1971 on the downstream side of the replacement bridge. The coordinates are at the old site.

Sources:
Clough, Philip & Betsy. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 1959, page 59
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXIX, No. 3, Summer 1981, page 13
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, October 2007

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