Out on the eastern border of Lancaster County, spanning the Octoraro Creek between Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County and West Fallowfield Township, Chester County lies the Mercer’s Mills Covered Bridge. Thomas Kipphorn calls this “Captain John Mercer’s Mill Bridge”. Who was Captain John and where were the mills?
Many of the covered bridges in Lancaster County utilize an architectural style called the “Burr Truss” or “Burr Arch-Truss”. It’s easy to see the arch, but what is the “Burr”? Does it refer to the rough edges of the woodwork? Or maybe it’s the sound that your...
This week I will highlight some of the non-covered bridges on the Conestoga River. I featured the covered bridges in an earlier post. I'm not going to attempt to document all of the bridges that cross the river but just a few that show a variety of...
In this post I will write about the covered bridges that span the Conestoga River.
"Bridgeport" is the local name for the place where two major arteries, the Old Philadelphia Pike (Rt 340) and Lincoln Highway East (Rt 462) converge to cross the Conestoga River and become East King Street, Lancaster. For the purposes of this discussion, I have chosen to divide...
