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Lattis or Lattice or Allegheny, McKean County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-42-02x
County: McKean County
Township: Eldred
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Lattis or Lattice or Allegheny
Crosses: Allegheny River
Truss type: Town
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Builder:
When Lost: May 1860
Cause: Hurricane
Latitude: N41 57.79
Longitude: W078 23.19
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: Below Halfway House.

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Comments:
In November, 1879, a petition was presented to the postmaster-general to abolish the name of Allegheny Bridge and substitute that of Eldred. In February, 1880, the petition was granted, and the name which the pioneers selected fifty years before was cast aside. In 1830 Nathan Dennis was appointed postmaster, and opened his office in the old log-cabin near the Lattice bridge. The hurricane of May, 1860, did some damage throughout Eldred Township, carrying away the Lattice bridge below the Half-Way House. It was located within the boro limits of Eldred. In 1915, the site was still being used and was on Route 211 at the base of a T intersection with Route 210, but the type of bridge at that time is unknown. By 1941, Route 210 had been redesignated as Route 446 and is now SR0446. In Penn Pilot aerial photography dated to October 16, 1940, the site had already been abandoned. There is a pier visible midstream, so the covered bridge was likely a two span also. The present bridge carrying Route 346 (SR0346), also on the Penn Pilot photo, had been built about 625' downstream (north). There is an approximate 1,225' section of the old road that bares southeast off the present road and heads down to the old site. It is visible in current aerial imagery and is marked as a primitive road on the current USGS topographic map. The coordinates are at the old site.

Sources:
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 116-117
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, May 2012

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