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St. Anthony Street Bridge, Spanning Buffalo Creek, Legislative Route 59024, Lewisburg, Union County, PA

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St. Anthony Street Bridge, Spanning Buffalo Creek, Legislative Route 59024, Lewisburg, Union County, PA

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Summary

Significance: The St. Anthony Street Bridge is significant in the areas of engineering and transportation, specifically for its age, size, length of truss for this age, and builder. The Champion Bridge Company is one of the nation's oldest bridge-building firms still in business today. In addition, the existing stone masonry abutments were built to support earlier wooden bridges. The bridge has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Survey number: HAER PA-99
Building/structure dates: 1889 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Champion Bridge Company
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Yule, Jordan Associates
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
Yearby, Jean P, transmitter
Mohar, Laurance, photographer
Corbe, Christine, historian
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Location

Lewisburg (Pa.)40.96453, -76.88441
Google Map of 40.9645293, -76.8844101
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Library of Congress
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