Bridge in Upper Merion Township
Bridge in Upper Merion Township | |
Bridge in Upper Merion Township in September 2012 | |
| Location | Trinity Ln. over Gulph Creek, Gulph Mills, Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 40°4′8″N 75°20′28″W / 40.06889°N 75.34111°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1789 |
| Architectural style | Small-span stone arch |
| MPS | Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000832[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1988 |
Bridge in Upper Merion Township is a historic stone arch bridge located at Gulph Mills in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania. The bridge crosses Gulph Creek, and was built in 1789. It has a single 20-foot-long (6.1 m) span with a width of 34 feet (10.4 m), and an overall length of 100-foot (30 m).[2]
The bridge's datestone features an archaic spelling of Federal:
The Bridge in Upper Merion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1] As of August 2021, it was the fifth-oldest bridge in use in the United States.
In 2021, the bridge structure was repaired and rehabilitated by contractor J.D. Eckman, with 100% funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, also known as PennDOT.[4]
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The bridge looking northwest, from Balligomingo Road. Following the rerouting of South Gulph Road to bypass Gulph Mills, this section of PA Rte 320 North was renamed Trinity Lane.
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The bridge looking southeast, to the intersection with Balligomingo Road (background, left).
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved May 11, 2012. Note: This includes District 6-0 (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bridge in Upper Merion Township" (PDF). Retrieved May 11, 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ John Thomson Faris, Old Roads Out of Philadelphia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1917), p. 158.
- ^ PennDOT