PLEASANTVILLE/OLEY TURNPIKE COVERED BRIDGE - OLEY, PENNSYLVANIA

 MANATAWNY CREEK

BERKS COUNTY

BUILT - 1852-1856

Length - 142' ... ESE of Oley, Oley Township. PA73 E. 3.4 miles from jct with Friedensburg Rd. in Oley, S. on Covered Bridge Rd. 0.5 miles to the bridge. David Renno built the bridge in 1852 on stone abutments constructed by Levi Marks. In its original configuration, the structure consisted of a multiple- king-post pony truss with two sets of arches. In 1856, the county commissioners contracted with Jonathan Bitner to enclose the bridge. Bitner added a third set of arches in the building process. Throughout much of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, the road which the bridge sits upon, was known as the Oley Turnpike, a privately financed toll road. The toll house, which functioned until 1927. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1981. Open to through traffic. Truss Type - A unique adaptation of a Covered Theodore Burr's Through Truss patented truss form. 

World Guide to Covered Bridge Number - 38-06-01

GPS +40.37897, -75.73872