CHILLISQUAQUE CREEK
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
BUILT - 1930
Length - 121' .... E. of Montandon, West Chillisquaque Township. PA45 E. 0.8 miles from jct with PA147 in Montandon, S. (curves E.) on Covered Bridge Rd. 1.1 miles to the bridge. Built by John Shriner Jr. & Zacheus Braley. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 8, 1979. Open to motor traffic. Truss Type - Covered Burr Arch Through Truss.
World Guide to Covered Bridge Number - 38-49-05
GPS +40.96017, -76.81567
At one point alleged to have been built in 1812 by James Moore II, father of the founder of nearby Bucknell University, which at the time would have made it the nation's oldest covered bridge, and it was widely promoted as such on postcards and tourist brochures, Later research in the 1980s proved it to have been built in 1830 instead.
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