Keller's Mill Covered Bridge

Infobox U.S. Covered Bridge
bridge=Keller's Mill Covered Bridge

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image_size=300px
bridge_

bridge_map_size=250px
state=Pennsylvania
county=Lancaster County
length=74
truss=single span, double Burr arch truss
built=1873
builder=Elias McMellen

Keller's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Cocalico Creek in Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Cocalico #5 Bridge.cite web
title = Keller's Mill Covered Bridge
work = Lancaster County, PA Government Portal
publisher = County of Lancaster, Pennsylvania
date = 2001-10-20
url = http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/lanco/cwp/view.asp?a=15&q=257162
accessdate = 2006-07-07 ] It is also sometimes known as Guy Bard Covered Bridge (after a local jurist) and Rettew's Covered Bridge (after the person that Rettew's Road is named)cite web
author = Dr. Roger A. McCain
title = Keller's Bridge
work = A Guide to Old Covered Bridges of Southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby areas
url = http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/bridge/CBKeller.html
accessdate = 2006-08-03] .

Keller's Mill Covered Bridge has a single span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. The bridge is the only all white bridge in the countycite web
title = Keller's Mill Covered Bridge
work = Lancaster County Pennsylvania Dutch Country Official Visitors Center
publisher = Pennsylvania Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau
date = 2006
url = http://www.padutchcountry.com/member_pages/keller_s_mill_covered_bridge.asp
accessdate = 2006-07-07 ] , the only bridge to have survived the transition from whitewashing to the red color commonly used in barns throughout the county. The bridge is not painted on the inside.

Due to heavy road traffic on the aging, one-lane bridge, construction on a new steel and concrete bridge to bypass the covered bridge occurred in the summer of 2006. According to Ephrata Township supervisor Clark Stauffer, the bridge has been disassembled and will be reassembled a few miles downstream to replace an existing one lane Mill Creek Road bridgecite web
author = Robinson, Ryan
title = Rebirth of a covered bridge?
work = LancasterOnline.com : News
publisher = Lancaster Newspapers
date = 2006-09-30
url = http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/26288
accessdate = 2006-10-01] . It was located at coor dms|40|10|11.4|N|76|12|16.8|W|city (40.16983, -76.20467) before being disassembled.cite web
author = Travis, Dale
title = 38-36-13
work = Round Barns & Covered Bridges
url = http://www.dalejtravis.com/bridge/pennsylv/htm/3803613.htm
accessdate = 2006-08-08 ]

The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-13. In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as structure number 80003518cite web
title = PENNSYLVANIA - Lancaster County
work = National Register of Historic Places
url = http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/PA/Lancaster/state2.html
accessdate = 2007-03-20] .

History

Keller's Mill Covered Bridge was originally built by Elias McMellen in 1873 at a cost of $2,075. After being swept away in flooding, the bridge was rebuilt in 1891, again by McMellen. It stayed there until it was disassembled and moved in 2006.

= Dimensions =

*Length: 62 feet (18.9 m) span and 74 feet (22.6 m) total lengthcite web
author = Bickel, Hank
title = Keller Bridge
work = Covered Bridges of the Northeast USA
date = 2005-06-23
url = http://www.coveredbridgesite.com/pa/keller.html
accessdate = 2006-08-04 ]
*Width: 13 feet 2 inches (4.0 m) clear deck and 15 feet (4.6 m) total width
*Overhead clearance: 11 feet (3.4 m)
*Underclearance: 9 feet 8 inches (2.9 m)

Gallery

ee also

*Burr arch truss
*List of Lancaster County covered bridges

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