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Buttonwood, Lycoming County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-41-01
County: Lycoming County
Township: Jackson
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Buttonwood
Crosses: Blockhouse Creek
Truss type: Multiple King & Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 74'
Roadway Width: 13'
Built: 1898
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N41 30.593
Longitude: W077 07.807
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.7 miles northeast of US15 north (Exit 158) on Blockhouse Rd. (SR1009), and 0.4 miles left on Covered Bridge Rd. (TR816). 1 mile north of Buttonwood.

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA. Built 1898
Todd Clark Collection

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA. Built 1898
Clint Frackman Collection

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA. Built 1898
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA. Built 1898
© Lisa Plamondon

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA. Built 1898
Bill Caswell Photo, May 4, 2015

Buttonwood Bridge, Jackson, Lycoming County, PA Built 1898
Bucknell University: Nelson F. Davis Covered Bridges Photograph Collection, May 8, 1936

Comments:
6-panel truss. It is a single span Multiple Kingpost variant which has a trapezoid arrangement of timbers sandwiching the main truss that act the same as the arch in a Burr Truss. It is located in Jackson Township on Covered Bridge Road (T816), which is an old section of what was Route 21 in 1916 and was the main crossing at the time. By 1941, the road had been relocated about 750' east and designated as Route 15. The relocated road is now SR1009 and called Blockhouse Road, while a new four-lane bypass Route 15 has been built less than 400' to the west of the covered bridge.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 200
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, July 2007
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 122

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