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Burkholder or Beechdale or Althouse, Somerset County

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Inventory Number: PA/38-56-01
County: Somerset County
Township: Brothers Valley
Town/Village: Garrett
Bridge Name: Burkholder or Beechdale or Althouse
Crosses: Buffalo Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 52'-4" overall, 47' span
Roadway Width: 12'-6"
Built: 1870
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 52.906
Longitude: W079 02.074
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 5.2 miles southwest of jct Main St. in Berlin on Broadway St. (becomes Mason Dixon Hwy.) and 400 feet right on Burkholder Bridge Rd. Northeast of Garrett.

Burkholder or Beechdale or Althouse Bridge, Brothers Valley, Somerset County, PA. Built 1870
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Burkholder or Beechdale Bridge, Brother's Valley, PA. Built 1870
© Lisa Plamondon

Burkholder or Beechdale or Althouse Bridge, Brothers Valley, Somerset County, PA. Built 1870
Bill Caswell Photo, February 27, 2010

Comments:
6-panel truss. The clearance was 9'-6" and is now posted as 8'-0", which is probably a "safe" clearance. The siding is only half the height of the bridge and the arch only comes up to the top of the siding.

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 244
Barkman, Sheldon H.. Covered Bridges of Somerset County, PA, 1979, Page 12
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XLVIII, No. 2, Spring 1990, page 10
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 128-129
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 128

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