Buttonwood Covered Bridge | |
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Coordinates | 41°30′36″N 77°07′48″W / 41.509894°N 77.130107°W |
Carries | Township 816 |
Crosses | Blockhouse Creek |
Locale | Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States |
Official name | Buttonwood Covered Bridge |
Named for | village of Buttonwood |
Maintained by | Lycoming County |
NBI Number | 417215081601110 |
Characteristics | |
Design | National Register of Historic Places |
Total length | 74.2 ft (22.6 m)[1] |
Width | 14.4 ft (4.4 m)[2] |
Height | 10.7 ft (3.3 m) |
Load limit | 3 tons (2.7 t) |
History | |
Built | 1878 or 1898 |
MPS | Covered Bridges of Bradford, Sullivan and Lycoming Counties TR |
NRHP reference No. | 80003569 |
Added to NRHP | July 24, 1980 |
Location | |
The Buttonwood Covered Bridge is a covered bridge built in either 1878 or 1898 over Blockhouse Creek in Jackson Township, Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It uses a queen post with king post truss and is 74 feet 2 inches (22.6 m) long. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, and had a major restoration in 1998. It is the shortest and most heavily used of the three covered bridges remaining in Lycoming County.[3]