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Harrity or Bucks (relocated), Carbon County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-13-01
County: Carbon County
Township: Towamensing
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Harrity or Bucks (relocated)
Crosses: dry land
Truss type: Multiple King
Spans: 1
Length: 87' overall, 66' span
Roadway Width: 13'
Built: 1841 (M1971)
Builder: Paul Buck
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 51.651
Longitude: W075 37.677
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.1 miles north of US209 at its jct with I-476 on Harrity Rd., 3.0 miles right on Pohopoco Dr. and 0.2 miles right at entrance to Beltzville State Park, 360 feet right, then 0.1 miles left to parking lot. Walk 150 feet northwest. Northeast of Weissport.

Harrity or Bucks Bridge (relocated location), Franklin, PA. Built c1898
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Harrity or Bucks Bridge (relocated location), Franklin, PA. Built c1898
Bill Caswell Photo, June 13, 2016

Harrity or Bucks (original location) Bridge, Towamensing, Carbon County, PA Built c1898 or 1841 Moved 1968
Bucknell University: Nelson F. Davis Covered Bridges Photograph Collection, September 2, 1936

Comments:
Most sources have this listed as a Multiple Kingpost, but it also has the characteristics of a Long Truss although the X braces don't follow through the entire length of the bridge. There are also two building dates for the bridge in the original sources, 1841 and c1898. The massive timbers of the trusses would tend to support the earlier date. The bridge is shown oriented nearly east to west in Towamensing Township, spanning a ditch northwest of a large parking area in the Beltzville State Park and is opened only to pedestrian traffic. Prior to the creation of Beltzville Lake, fed by Pohopoco Creek, which it formerly spanned, it was moved slightly under one mile to the northeast by the US Army Corp. of Engineers and the old site was flooded.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 70
Travis, Dale. Pennsylvania Covered Bridges List, updated to 26 Aug 2004, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm (23 Sep 2004)
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXIX, No. 3, Summer 1981, page 12
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 84-85
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, January 2008
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 104

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