Trevorton Bridge

Geobox|Bridge
name = Trevorton Bridge
official_name =
other_name = Port Trevorton
category = Covered bridge


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country = United States
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state = Pennsylvania
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region_type = Counties
region_label = County/Counties in which the site lies
region = Northumberland
region1 = Snyder
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road =
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river_type = Crosses
river = Susquehanna River
length_imperial = 3460
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width_imperial =
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material = Wood
lat_d = 40
lat_m = 42
lat_s = 35
lat_NS = N
long_d = 76
long_m = 51
long_s = 08
long_EW = W
established_type = Built
established = 1850s
established1_type = Dismantled
established1 = 1870


map_size = 250
map_caption = Location of the Trevorton Bridge in Pennsylvania
map_locator = Pennsylvania

The Trevorton Bridge was a wooden covered bridge that crossed the Susquehanna River. It was erected between Herndon, Pennsylvania in Northumberland County and Port Trevorton in Snyder County. The bridge was convert|3460|ft|m long,cite book |title=Seeing Pennsylvania |last=Faris |first=John Thomson |year=1919 |publisher=J.B. Lippincott Company |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PlYMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc#PPP1,M1 |pages=173] with a convert|1400|ft|m|adj=on trestle leading up to it. It was originally built as a railroad bridge by the Reading Company and, in 1885, the bridge was adapted for use as a road bridge as well as for trains. The bridge was most often used to cross the Susquehanna by cattle. The continuous crossing of cattle endangered the already weakened bridge (weakened from acid in the bark the pine used to construct the bridge). The bridge was eventually dismantled for fear that it collapse.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Susquehanna River

References

Crossings navbox
structure = Bridges
place = Susquehanna River
bridge = Trevorton Bridge (ruins)
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upstream = Selinsgrove Bridge
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downstream = Clarks Ferry Bridge
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