SHEARD'S MILL COVERED BRIDGE - QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

 TOHICKON CREEK

BUCKS COUNTY

BUILT - 1873

Length - 136' ... E. of Quakertown, East Rockhill/Haycock Townships. PA313 E. 1.2 miles from jct with PA212 in Quakertown, N. on W Thatcher Rd. 2.0 miles, S. (curves E.) on W Thatcher Rd. 0.8 miles, S. on Covered Bridge Rd. 0.3 miles to the bridge. Rehabilitated in 1971. As in a lot of the covered bridges, this bridge was built for access to the nearby mill. Bridge was posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980. Open to through traffic. Truss Type - Covered Town Lattice Through Truss.

World Guide to Covered Bridge Number - 38-09-06

GPS +40.45462, -75.27794

SHEARD'S MILL

The mill's original construction is uncertain, the earliest deeds date back to 1798. A couple sources say that the builder was David Sheard 1825-1835. What is known was that Levi Sheard purchased the property in 1844. The mill used water power to grind the grain into meal for local farmers, and for the general public. The mill was of great importance to the region, and being so, the local farmers and the nearby community moved together to the nearby covered bridge to get better access to it. In 1916 the ownership was transferred to brothers Rubin and John Clymer. The brothers ran the mill and continued to grind grain for feed and apples for cider until 1965. The cider press was in operation until 1985.