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Fleisher's or Smith's Farm, Perry County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-50-17
County: Perry County
Township: Oliver
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Fleisher's or Smith's Farm
Crosses: Big Buffalo Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 123'-6" overall, 113'-1" span
Roadway Width: 13'-6"
Built: 1887
Builder: Yohn and Ritter
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 29.369
Longitude: W077 09.492
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.7 miles north of jct PA34 on PA849, then 0.4 miles right (ahead) on N. 4th St. (SR1024) and 1.0 miles left on (dead end) Fairground Rd. 1 mile northwest of Newport in Oliver Township.

Fleisher's Bridge, Oliver, Perry County, PA. Built 1887
© Lisa Plamondon

Fleisher's Bridge, Oliver, Perry County, PA. Built 1887
Bill Caswell Photo, July 26, 2013

Comments:
14-panel truss. Cost $1595.00. Also known as the Smith's Farm bridge according to N. F. Davis. The road has dead ended about ½ mile west of the bridge at a farm since before 1941, but a 1907 and 1912 map have it crossing the stream two more times at each end of a large horseshoe curve of the stream before it ended at Millford Road (SR1009 - LR50047).

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 225
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 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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