SACHS/SAUCK'S COVERED BRIDGE - GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

 MARSH CREEK

ADAMS COUNTY

BUILT - 1854

Length - 101' .... SW of Gettysburg, Cumberland/Freedom Township. Bus. Bus.US15 S. 2.3 miles from jct with US30 in Gettysburg, W. (curves SW) on Millerstown Rd. (becomes Pumping Station Rd.) 1.7 miles, E. (left) on Water Works Rd. 0.15 miles to the bridge. Also known as the Waterworks Covered Bridge. Additionally, the bridge was also known as the Sauches Covered Bridge at the time of the Battle Of Gettysburg. Built by David.S. Stoner at a cost of $1.544. On June 19, 1996, a flash flood knocked the bridge from one of its abutments. It was restored utilizing over 70% of its original structure.The restoration was completed in 1997 at an approximate cost of $600,000. During the American Civil War, both the Union and Confederate Armies used the bridge in the Battle Of Gettysburg and its aftermath. On July 1, 1863, the bridge was crossed by the two brigades of the I Corps of the Union Army heading towards Gettysburg. The III Corps also crossed the bridge heading to the Black Horse Tavern. Four days later, the majority of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia retreated over the bridge after the Union victory in the Battle of Gettysburg. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1980. Closed to motor traffic. Truss Type - Covered Town Lattice Truss.
World Guide to Covered Bridge Number - 38-01-01

This is one of the covered bridges where many believe in haunting of this bridge. One haunting story comes from a time during the Civil War which involved three Confederate soldiers who were trying to escape from their service and donned Union  Army attire and marched with the Union army near the bridge to get away from the area. Unfortunately they were caught and treated as spies and were hanged from the bridges's wooden support beams and left there as a warning to other Confederate soldiers. Supposedly through the years people have witnesses various hauntings at the bridge from disembodied heads floating through the bridge to mysterious cigar odors and hearing gunshots, and even feeling being tapped on the shoulder.