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Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run, Lancaster County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-36-10
County: Lancaster County
Township: Brecknock - East Earl
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run
Crosses: dry land
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 107' span, 119' overall
Roadway Width: 12'
Built: 1866
Builder: Elias McMellen
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 10.517
Longitude: W076 04.872
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Directions: 3.8 miles northeast of jct US322 on PA272, then 1.9 miles right on W Church St. (SR1051) (becomes E Church St.) and 1.9 miles left on left side of Red Run Rd. (SR1044) in Red Run Campground. Southeast of Reamstown, 0.5 miles south of Red Run.

Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run Bridge, Brecknock, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1866
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Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run Bridge, Brecknock, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1866
© Lisa Plamondon

Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run Bridge, Brecknock, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1866
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

Comments:
11-panel truss. Closed, private. Also known as Joseph Oberholtzers Mill or Red Run Campground Bridge. Now privately owned, the bridge was bypassed in 1961 and the channel of the stream diverted to pass under the new bridge. If the township line moved along with the stream then, technically, the entire bridge is now in Brecknock Township. It formerly was located on Red Run Road (LR36013 - SR1044) at the base of a "T" intersection with Martin Church Road (T957) coming in from the east. A left turn off the bridge continued the Red Run Road LR36013 - SR1044 designation. Now Martin Church Road is the base of a new "T" intersection, with the new concrete bridge to the south and a turn in either direction being Red Run Road (SR1044). The bridge is in a ruinous state and in danger of collapse. A puddle forms under the bridge when there is sufficient water to feed it.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 178
Travis, Dale. Pennsylvania Covered Bridges List, updated to 26 Aug 2004, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm (23 Sep 2004)
Collins, Kenneth W.. Covered Bridges of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2002, pages 68-69
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 108-109
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, September 2005
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 117

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