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Inventory Number: PA/38-63-17
County: Washington County
Township: Amwell
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Hughes
Crosses: Ten Mile Creek
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 65' overall, 55'-6" span
Roadway Width: 12'-4"
Built: 1889
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 01.366
Longitude: W080 10.368
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Directions: Just east of I-79 (Exit 23) on Ten Mile Rd. (SR2020) and 0.3 miles left on right side of Montgomery Run Rd. West of Ten Mile.

Hughes Bridge, Amwell, Washington County, PA. Built 1889
Fred Yenerall Collection

Hughes Bridge, Amwell, Washington County, PA. Built 1889
Jenn Caswell Photo, July 26, 2014

Hughes Bridge, Amwell, Washington County, PA. Built 1889
Bill Caswell Photo, July 26, 2014

Comments:
County Bridge #46, owned by Amwell Township. Like many Washington County Bridges, this one has vertical siding painted red inside and out. There are three windows on each side, two near each portal and one in the center. According to a covered bridge booklet put out by the Washington County Planning Commission, the following is stated: "Amwell Township built the bridge in 1889, but the combination of hewed and sawed timbers in the Queenpost Truss system suggests that this bridge replaced an earlier bridge standing in the same location or that materials from a washed away bridge that stood nearby were used to construct this one. The date of the Hughes Bridge, 1889, shortly after the floods of 1888 seems to support this theory. A map on page 200 of Rural Reflections of Amwell Township, Volume #1, dated 1878, shows a bridge standing on the property of Esquire Hughes and Sons close to two saw mills. This seems to confirm that a bridge was standing in the general vicinity before the floods of 1888."

Sources:
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges, 2001, page 277
Travis, Dale. Pennsylvania Covered Bridges List, updated to 26 Aug 2004, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbpa.htm (23 Sep 2004)
Moll, Fred J.. Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges - Our Heritage, 2004, pages 134-135
Kipphorn, Thomas. Information received by email, May 2008
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 133

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