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Trostletown or Kantner, Somerset County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-56-10
County: Somerset County
Township: Quemahoning
Town/Village: Stoystown
Bridge Name: Trostletown or Kantner
Crosses: Intermittent Tributary of Stonycreek River
Truss type: Multiple King
Spans: 3
Length: 104'
Roadway Width: 12'
Built: 1845
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 05.762
Longitude: W078 56.718
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.3 miles east of jct PA281 on US30, then 0.1 miles right on left side of N. Club Rd. in Stoystown Lions Club Park. South edge of Stoystown.

Trostletown or Kantner Bridge, Quemahoning, Somerset County, PA. Built 1845
Fred Yenerall Collection

Trostletown or Kantner Bridge, Quemahoning, Somerset County, PA. Built 1845
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Trostletown or Kantner Bridge, Quemahoning, Somerset County, PA. Built 1845
Bill Caswell Photo, February 27, 2010

Comments:
6-panel truss. On the 1941 Type 10 map, as well as Penn Pilot aerial photography dated to May 4, 1939, a channel is shown leaving the main stream, passing under this bridge and reconverging further downstream (north). On present maps, the channel no longer reconverges into the main stream, but instead, flows from a pond, then under the bridge and north into Stony Creek River. Whether this occurred naturally, or was a man-made stream change is not known. The bridge originally had two spans of unequal length. The longer one was a Multiple Kingpost Truss. This has now been divided into two spans of equal length (with a pier in the center). The short one-panel span has been described variously as a Queenpost truss, Childs truss or "X" panel. Although some sources date it to 1845, the sign on the portal says 1873. The Stoystown Lions Club acquired the bridge in 1965 in a state of near collapse and restored it. It was rehabilitated again in 1993 and is in excellent shape with a park around it.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 254
Barkman, Sheldon H.. Covered Bridges of Somerset County, PA, 1979, Page 10
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XLVIII, No. 2, Spring 1990, page 11
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 126-127
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 129

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