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Willow Hill or Amish Farm, Lancaster County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-36-43
County: Lancaster County
Township: East Lampeter
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Willow Hill or Amish Farm
Crosses: tributary of Mill Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 72' overall, 63'-7" span
Roadway Width: 13'-6"
Built: 1962
Builder: Roy Zimmerman
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 01.465
Longitude: W076 12.091
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Directions: 0.4 miles west of jct PA896 on north side of US30 (beside Amish Farm Exhibit). East of Lancaster.

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
Fred Yenerall Collection

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
Thomas G. Kipphorn Collection

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
Bill Caswell Photo (2004)

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
© Lisa Plamondon

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
Bill Caswell Photo, December 14, 2019

Willow Hill or Amish Farm Bridge, East Lampeter, Lancaster County, PA Built 1962
John Diehl Photo, Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Resource Center

Comments:
The bridge was completed on May 21, 1962 and utilized the best parts of two former Lancaster County covered bridges (Miller's Mill 38-36-27 and Daniel Good's Fording 38-36-24), that otherwise would have been destroyed. The upper and lower chords, arches, vertical posts and compression timbers were from Good's Fording, while the rest of the bridge, less the shingles, is from Miller's Mill Bridge. It is located in East Lampeter Township along the north side and parallel to Route 30 East (SR0030). It was possible to turn off the main road and cross the bridge as late as mid-2005, but construction of an adjacent shopping mall on the west side and The American Movie Theatre on the east side presently has made it inaccessible. There are no openings cut into the new curbs to the road that crosses the bridge.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 185
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 3-5, 68
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 110-111
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, September 2005
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 120

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