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Millville Road Bridge

Millville Road Bridge

Primary Photographer(s): Nathan Holth

Bridge Documented: August 26, 2019

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Facility Carried / Feature Intersected
Millville Road (PA-4009) Over Fishing Creek
Location
Bloomsburg: Columbia County, Pennsylvania: United States
Construction Date and Builder / Engineer
1930 By Builder/Contractor: Bethlehem Steel Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Engineer/Design: Pennsylvania State Highway Department
Rehabilitation Date
Not Available or Not Applicable
Main Span Length
154.0 Feet (46.9 Meters)
Structure Length
159.0 Feet (48.5 Meters)
Roadway Width
21.7 Feet (6.61 Meters)
Spans
1 Main Span(s)
Inventory Number
12713

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Bridge Documentation

This bridge is a rare surviving example of an earlier state standard through truss bridge in Pennsylvania. The earlier standard plan bridges have a less heavy looking portal bracing than the bridges built in the later 1930s and 1940s. There are far more of the later examples surviving than these earlier design trusses. Unlike other states such as Indiana, Pennsylvania failed to evaluate its historic bridges for significance in the context of state design and standard plan development, therefore the Historic Bridge Inventory found the bridge to be non-historic and didn't even mention that this bridge conforms to an earlier state highway design.

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Discussion of Bridge

The single span, 166'-long riveted Parker thru truss bridge is supported on concrete abutments with wingwalls. The truss members are built-up sections. The concrete safety shape barriers were placed in 1977. The 1930 bridge is a late example of its technology and design details. It has no innovative or distinctive details. The bridge is not historically or technologically noteworthy. It was fabricated by the Bethlehem Steel Fabricating and Erection Division.

Discussion of Surrounding Area

The bridge carries a 2 lane state highway over a stream in a sparsely developed, wooded area. The area does not appear to have historic district potential.

Bridge Considered Historic By Survey: No

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