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Penns Creek Bridge, State Route 1014 at Penns Creek, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA

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Penns Creek Bridge, State Route 1014 at Penns Creek, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA

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Summary

Significance: Penns Creek Bridge is an unusually ornamented example of a multiple-span concrete barrel arch bridge. Parapet walls follow the graceful humpback curve of the bridge and employ a molded concrete star pattern used on few concrete bridges in Pennsylvania. Penns Creek Bridge was listed in the National Register on June 22, 1988.
Survey number: HAER PA-284
Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Flink, Gustav A
Whittaker & Diehl
Pennsylvania Board of Public Grounds & Buildings
Whittaker, John Fleming
Diehl, David Leslie
John Milner Associates, Incorporated, contractor
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, sponsor
Herr, John, photographer
Meyer, Richard, historian
McVarish, Douglas C, historian
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Location

Selinsgrove (Pa.)40.81690, -77.21352
Google Map of 40.8168952, -77.2135241
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Library of Congress
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