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Unionville (Demolished 1932)
Little is known about the Unionville Bridge.
A 1962 letter from Charles Pague of Shippensburg to the Bucks County Historical Society stated the bridge was on the Rosenberger farm near Souderton on the Old Bethlehem Pike. (He was writing on behalf of…
Lower Trenton (1806-1876)
The second covered bridge built in America was designed by Theodore Burr.
Built by the privately owned Trenton Delaware Bridge Company, the Lower Trenton or Decatur Street Bridge opened on January 30, 1806. The original bridge had five spans of wood…
McConkey's Ferry (1834-1903)
The Taylorsville Delaware Bridge Company built an 875 foot-long covered bridge at McConkey's Ferry in 1834 at the site where George Washington and the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River in December 1776. The first bridge was destroyed in an…
Lumberville - Raven Rock (1835-1947)
The Lumberville Bridge was the last wooden covered bridge to cross the Delaware River between Easton and Trenton.
A sawmill originally sat on the Pennsylvania side of the bridge and in 1814, so the settlement was called Lumberville. The Lumberville…
Castle Valley (1835-1930)
Castle Valley covered bridge was located outside Doylestown. At 483 feet it was the longest Covered Bridge in the interior of Bucks County when it was demolished in 1930.
The name of the region came from one of Bucks County’s legendary figures,…
Neely's Mill (Removed 1935)
Neely's Mill Bridge was lost after a failed effort to preserve it in the 1930s.
The original bridge’s construction date is unknown, but it sat in one of the most scenic locations in Bucks County on River Road near the site of George Washington’s 1775…