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Wagner's or Wagoner's or Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill, Perry County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-50-15
County: Perry County
Township: Northeast Madison - Tyrone
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Wagner's or Wagoner's or Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill
Crosses: Bixler Run
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 86' overall, 75'-9" span
Roadway Width: 13'-10"
Built: 1889
Builder: Joseph D. Lightner
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 21.566
Longitude: W077 22.369
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 1.6 miles west of jct PA274/850 on combined routes and 250 feet left on old section of Wagner Rd. West of Loysville.

Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill Bridge, Northeast Madison-Tyrone, Perry County, PA. Built 1889
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, April 11, 2026

Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill Bridge, Northeast Madison-Tyrone, Perry County, PA. Built 1889
Bill Caswell Photo, July 26, 2013

Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill Bridge, Northeast Madison-Tyrone, Perry County, PA. Built 1889
Bucknell University: Nelson F. Davis Covered Bridges Photograph Collection, October 28, 1936

Waggoner's or Roddy's Mill Bridge, Northeast Madison-Tyrone, Perry County, PA. Built 1889
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, April 11, 2026

Comments:
Closed, private. 10-panel truss. According to its National Register application, the bridge single span Burr truss bridge was built by Joseph D. Lightner in 1889 to replace a structure lost during a flood that year. It cost $1,105.00. In Henry Falk’s article on Perry County covered bridges in the Summer 1992 Topics (page 3), he noted that the earlier bridge was built in 1812, probably by the Waggoner family who owned a nearby mill. At the time of the article, the bridge belonged to the Perry County Historical Society. The bridge burned in a suspicious fire on October 21, 2021. Sometime prior to August 2022, a new roof and siding had been added to cover the charred trusses.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 233
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 15, 120-121
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, August 2006
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 126

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