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David B. Jackson Sawmill or Boone & Harley's Mill, Lancaster County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-36-33x
County: Lancaster County
Township: Bart
Town/Village: Bartville
Bridge Name: David B. Jackson Sawmill or Boone & Harley's Mill
Crosses: West Branch Octoraro Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 148'-5", 160'-6"
Roadway Width: 14'-9"
Built: 1878
Builder: John Smith & Samuel Stauffer
When Lost: 01 Jul 1984
Cause: Flood
Latitude: N39 53.79
Longitude: W076 04.82
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 1.5 miles west of jct PA896 on PA372, then 1.7 miles left on Mount Pleasant Rd (TR696). South of Georgetown, ¾ mile northwest of Bartville.

Jackson's Mill Bridge, Bart, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1878, Lost in Flood July 1, 1984
Clint Frackman Collection

Jackson's Mill Bridge, Bart, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1878, Lost in Flood July 1, 1984
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

Jackson's Mill Bridge, Bart, Lancaster County, PA. Built 1878, Lost in Flood July 1, 1984
Herbert Richter Photo, February 26, 1956, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
Cost $2460. This was one of only two bridges known to have been built by Samuel Stauffer. The bridge is located in Bart Township on Mount Pleasant Road (T696) at the base of a "Y" intersection. Travelling south across the bridge, if a left turn is made, it continues the T696 Mount Pleasant Road designation, while a right turn begins T367 on Hollow Road. About 20' of the span was torn away and splintered and that was partly replaced by timbers from Kuhns Fording Bridge (WGN PA-01-12), an Adams County, PA bridge that had been donated to the Lancaster County Commissioners from the Adams County Commissioners, after a similar flood had destroyed it. The covered bridge was put back into service over a year later, but looks quite different than before the flood. The reason for the different dimensions is that a new set of concrete abutments were built on a different alignment over the stream. They will be eventually capped with stone.

Sources:
Collins, Kenneth W.. Covered Bridges of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2002, pages 20-21, 70-71
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 108-109
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, September 2005

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