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Carmichael's, Greene County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-30-21#2
County: Greene County
Township: Cumberland
Town/Village: Carmichaels Boro
Bridge Name: Carmichael's
Crosses: Muddy Creek
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 64' overall, 60'-4" span
Roadway Width: 15'
Built: 1889
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 53.916
Longitude: W079 58.630
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Directions: 3.0 miles northeast of PA21 on PA88, then 350 feet right on Greene St, then 0.1 miles left on N Market St. and 90 feet left on Old Town St. North edge of Carmichael.

Carmichael's Bridge, Cumberland, PA. Built 1889
© Lisa Plamondon

Carmichael's Bridge, Cumberland, Greene County, PA. Built 1889
Bill Caswell Photo, July 26, 2014

Comments:
County Bridge #11. Per Old Covered Bridge Days of Greene County by Earle Robert Forrest (1953), the bridge was over Muddy Creek at Carmichaels Borough, on Route 21 east of Waynesburg was built in 1889 to replace an earlier btifge built in 1845 at the site. It is a queenpost with a length of 64.1 feet (60.4 feet between abutments). A second covered bridge was noted to have been at Carmichaels, but it had been replaced several years prior with a concrete bridge (-42?).

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 135
Forrest, Robert Earle, Old Covered Bridge Days of Greene County, The Washington Observer, February, 1953.
Travis, Dale. Pennsylvania Covered Bridges List, updated to 26 Aug 2004, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm (23 Sep 2004)
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, March 2008
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 112

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