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Big Chickies Bridge, Spanning Big Chickies Creek, Lancaster Junction, Lancaster County, PA
Summary
Significance: The tied-through reinforced concrete arch Big Chickies Bridge, built in 1916, is a historically and technologically significant early and rare example in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of a rainbow type tied design bridge with diagonal members.
Survey number: HAER PA-630
Building/structure dates: 1916 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Firm of Frank H. Shaw
Shaw, Percy
Shaw, Frank
McMellen, Elias
Corvin, William
Snavely, Henry
Kaufman, H S
Helman, Peter
Bruder, JAmes
Eshleman, J Miller
Monier, Jean
Wunsch, R
Melan, Joseph
von Emperger, Fritz
Luten, Daniel B
Jones, Howard M
Considere, M A
Marsh, James B
Croteau, Todd, project manager
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PENNDOT), sponsor
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Vidutis, Richard, historian
Location
lancaster county, 40.13148, -76.40218
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
