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Lower Humbert or Faidley, Somerset County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-56-12
County: Somerset County
Township: Lower Turkeyfoot
Town/Village: Ursina
Bridge Name: Lower Humbert or Faidley
Crosses: Laurel Hill Creek
Truss type: Multiple King & Tied Arch
Spans: 1+
Length: 125'
Roadway Width: 12'-4"
Built: 1891
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 50.407
Longitude: W079 19.384
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 1.3 miles northeast of intersection Groff Rd. in Ursina on PA281, then 1.0 miles left at Y on Humbert Rd. (SR3007) and just left on Covered Bridge Rd.

Lower Humbert or Faidley Bridge, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset County, PA. Built 1891
Fred Yenerall Collection

Lower Humbert or Faidley Bridge, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset County, PA. Built 1891
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Lower Humbert or Faidley Bridge, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset County, PA. Built 1891
Bill Caswell Photo, February 27, 2010

Lower Humbert or Faidley Bridge, Lower Turkeyfoot, Somerset County, PA. Built 1891
Traugott Keller Photograpg, August 31, 1957, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
10-panel truss. There are claims that this bridge was built as early as 1830 although the 1891 date is more likely. In Penn Pilot aerial photography dated to May 15, 1939, as well as current aerial imagery, the covered bridge is oriented northwest to southeast on Covered Bridge Road (T393), at the base of a "T" intersection, with a turn off the eastern end in either direction onto Humbert Road (SR3007 - 50 Spur B). In 1941, Humbert Road in the area of the bridge was Route 877.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 248
Barkman, Sheldon H.. Covered Bridges of Somerset County, PA, 1979, Page 16
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XLVIII, No. 2, Spring 1990, page 10
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 128-129
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 130

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