Bodines Bridge, Carrying State Route 1006 over Lycoming Creek, Bodines, Lycoming County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Bodines Bridge is a pin-connected Pratt through truss spanning 149 feet. One of 47 metal truss bridges nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a statewide historic bridge nomination, it is an intact representative example of a late nineteenth century Pratt through truss. Relatively inexpensive and easy to manufacture, ship, and erect, this bridge type found widespread application in rural areas throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century.
Survey number: HAER PA-179
Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
bodines, 41.27200, -77.10249
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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