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Sheard's Mill or Thatcher, Bucks County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-09-06
County: Bucks County
Township: East Rockhill - Haycock
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Sheard's Mill or Thatcher
Crosses: Tohickon Creek
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 134'-7" overall, 114'-4" span
Roadway Width: 15'-11"
Built: 1873
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 27.286
Longitude: W075 16.688
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 2.3 miles northeast of jct PA313 (Dublin Pike) on PA563 (Mountain View Dr.), then 1.2 miles left on Old Bethlehem Rd., then 0.5 miles left on W. Thatcher Rd. and 0.3 miles left on Covered Bridge Rd. East of Quakertown.

Sheard's Mill or Thatcher Bridge, East Rockhill-Haycock, Bucks County, PA. Built 1873
Todd Clark Collection

Sheard's Mill or Thatcher Bridge, East Rockhill-Haycock, Bucks County, PA. Built 1873
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Sheard's Mill or Thatcher Bridge, East Rockhill-Haycock, Bucks County, PA. Built 1873
© Lisa Plamondon

Sheard's Mill or Thatcher Bridge, East Rockhill-Haycock, Bucks County, PA. Built 1873
Bill Caswell Photo, February 5, 2016

Sheard's Mill or Thatcher Bridge, East Rockhill-Haycock, Bucks County, PA Built 1873
Bucknell University: Nelson F. Davis Covered Bridges Photograph Collection, July 14, 1937

Comments:
On Covered Bridge Road (T471 - 1991) in East Rockhill Twp. and Covered Bridge Drive (SR4099 - road and bridge) in Haycock Twp.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 64
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 82-83
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, November 2006
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 102

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