Lower Bridge at English Center, Spanning Little Pine Creek at State Route 4001, English Center, Lycoming County, PA
Summary
Significance: It is the only remaining bridge of two completed in 1891 to provide access to this once-important regional logging and tanning center. One of few surviving short-span roadway suspension bridges in Pennsylvania, the Lower Bridge is also an usual variant of a braced-chain bridge.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N439
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1149
Survey number: HAER PA-461
Building/structure dates: 1891 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78002428
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Dean & Westbrook
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Elliott, Joseph E, B, photographer
Location
english center, 41.27200, -77.10249
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html