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Bucher's Mill, Lancaster County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-36-12
County: Lancaster County
Township: East Cocalico - West Cocalico
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Bucher's Mill
Crosses: Cocalico Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 73' overall, 63'-10" span
Roadway Width: 14'-10"
Built: 1881
Builder: Elias McMellen
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 12.481
Longitude: W076 08.080
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Directions: 3.3 miles northeast of jct US322 on PA272, then 330 feet right on Cocalico Creek Rd. (TR746) and just right (still on Cocalico Creek Rd.). Southwest of Reamstown.

Bucher's Mill Bridge, East Cocalico-West Cocalico, Lancaster County, PA Built 1881
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

Bucher's Mill Bridge, East Cocalico-West Cocalico, Lancaster County, PA Built 1881
Bill Caswell Photo (2004)

Bucher's Mill Bridge, East Cocalico-West Cocalico, Lancaster County, PA Built 1881
Bill Caswell Photo, December 15, 2019

Comments:
7-panel truss. Also known as Monroe Bucher's Mill Bridge. Cost $1167 (1881) and $1250 or $1025 in 1892. Clearance 12'-6". The bridge was washed away in 1891, but beached downstream in a meadow intact. It was brought back to the old site.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 161
Travis, Dale. Pennsylvania Covered Bridges List, updated to 26 Aug 2004, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm (23 Sep 2004)
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, August 2005
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 117

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