Wehr Covered Bridge
Wehr Covered Bridge | |
Location | West of Greenawald on Township 597, South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°37′43″N 75°34′11″W / 40.62867°N 75.56972°WCoordinates: 40°37′43″N 75°34′11″W / 40.62867°N 75.56972°W |
Area | 0.1 acres (0.040 ha) |
Built | 1841 |
Architectural style | Burr truss |
MPS | Covered Bridges of the Delaware River Watershed TR |
NRHP reference No. | 80003561[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 1, 1980 |
Wehr Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a three span, 117-foot-long (36 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has horizontal siding and gable roof. It crosses Jordan Creek.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] After an incident in July 2014 in which a grossly overweight truck crossed the bridge, it was closed for several days for inspection. The bridge did not sustain significant structural damage, but county officials decided to reduce the posted weight limit from 20,000 pounds (9,000 kg) to 8,000 pounds (4,000 kg).[3]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Susan M. Zacher (March 10, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Wehr Covered Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ^ Petty, Precious (August 15, 2014). "Lehigh County covered bridge wasn't damaged by tanker truck, reopens with lower weight limit". The Express-Times.
External links[]
Media related to Wehr Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Covered bridges in Pennsylvania
- Covered bridges in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Bridges in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Bridges completed in 1841
- Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Road bridges in Pennsylvania
- Wooden bridges in Pennsylvania
- History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Tourist attractions in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
- Burr Truss bridges in the United States
- 1841 establishments in Pennsylvania