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White Rock Forge, Lancaster County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-36-18#2
County: Lancaster County
Township: Colerain - Little Britain
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: White Rock Forge
Crosses: West Branch of Octoraro Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 113' overall, 102'-8" span
Roadway Width: 13'-10"
Built: 1884
Builder: Elias McMellen
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 49.482
Longitude: W076 05.399
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 5.2 miles northwest of jct US1 just west of Oxford on PA472, then 0.1 miles left on Street Rd., and 2.0 miles left on Academy Rd. (becomes White Rock Rd.). South of Kirkwood, ¼ mile north of White Rock.

White Rock Forge Bridge, Colerain-Little Britain, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1884
Clint Frackman Collection

White Rock Forge Bridge taken before 1919, Colerain-Little Britain, PA Built 1884
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

White Rock Forge Bridge, Colerain-Little Britain, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1884
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

White Rock Forge Bridge, Colerain-Little Britain, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1884
Bill Caswell Photo, July 28, 2013

Comments:
12-panel truss. Still standing between Colerain and Little Britain Towwnships on Academy Road (T337) at the base of a "T" intersection with King Pen Road on the Little Britain Township side. A turn off the bridge in either direction on King Pen Road is T490.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 184
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, September 2005
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 118