Buttonwood Covered Bridge | |
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 Buttonwood Covered Bridge and Blockhouse Creek, as seen from the northbound lane of US 15 | |
| 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 | |
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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]
- ^ Federal Highway Administration (2009). "Place Name: Jackson (Township of), Pennsylvania; NBI Structure Number: 417215081601110; Facility Carried: Buttonwood; Feature Intersected: Blockhouse Creek". Nationalbridges.com (Alexander Svirsky). Retrieved October 30, 2010.[permanent dead link] Note: this is a formatted scrape of the 2009 official website, which can be found here for Pennsylvania: "PA09.txt". Federal Highway Administration. 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System (CRGIS)" (Searchable database). Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved November 2, 2010.[permanent dead link] Note: This includes Zacher, Susan M. and Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Buttonwood Covered Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved November 2, 2010.
- ^ Evans, Benjamin D.; Evans, June R. (1993). Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide (1st ed.). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-8229-5504-0.