Lime Valley Covered Bridge

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Main other{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox bridge with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y|mapframe_args=y| also_known_as | alt | aqueduct_name | architect | begin | below | bridge_name | builder | built | capacity | caption | carries | child | clearance | clearance_above | clearance_below | closed | collapsed | complete | contracted_designer | coord_format | coordinates | cost | crosses | dedicated | demolished | depth | design | designer | destroyed | diameter | downstream | electrification | embed | embedded | ends | engineering | extra | fabricator | fetchwikidata | first_diameter | first_length | followed | gauge | height | heritage | id | id_type | image | image_caption | image_size | image_upright | inaugurated | lanes | length | life | load | locale | location | mainspan | maint | maintained | material | material1 | material2 | name | named_for | native_name | native_name_lang | notrack | num_track | number_spans | official_name | onlysourced | open | opened | opening | os_grid_reference | other_name | owner | passable | piers_in_water | pierswater | preceded | qid | rebuilt | references | replaced_by | replaces | second_diameter | second_length | spans | starts | structure_gauge | third_diameter | third_length | toll | towpath | track_gauge | traffic | traversable | upstream | website | width | winner }}Template:Main other The Lime Valley Covered Bridge or Strasburg Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Pequea Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.<ref name="Bickel">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the Pequea #8 Bridge.<ref name="lancaster.pa.us">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The bridge has a single span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks.<ref name="lancaster.pa.us"/> It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in the traditional white color.

The bridge's WGCB Number is 38-36-23. Added in 1980, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as structure number 80003535.<ref name="register">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is located at Template:Coord (39.96067, -76.23500). The bridge is close to U.S. Route 222 southeast of Willow Street in West Lampeter Township, Pennsylvania. From 222 the bridge is Template:Convert east on Lime Valley Road, Template:Convert south on South View Road, and Template:Convert on Breneman Road.<ref name="padutch">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Travis">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

History

It was built in 1871 by either Joseph Cramer<ref name="padutch"/> or Elias McMellen<ref name="Bickel"/><ref name="McCain">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at a cost of $3,500. The bridge was a twin to another covered bridge built in 1857 by Silas Wolverton that was located Template:Convert to the west of the Lime Valley Covered Bridge.<ref name="padutch"/>

Dimensions

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Length: 93 feet (28.3 m) span and Template:Convert total length<ref name="Bickel"/><ref name="McCain"/>
Width: 13 (4.0 m) clear deck and Template:Convert total width<ref name="Bickel"/><ref name="McCain"/>
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