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Fleisher Covered Bridge
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Fleisher Covered Bridge, in Oliver Township near Newport, Pennsylvania, carries a road over Big Buffalo Creek in a single-span wooden Burr truss built in 1887 and measuring 113 feet long. It represents rural Pennsylvania’s late nineteenth-century covered-bridge tradition, using timber construction and the Burr truss system to achieve a relatively long span. Alterations over time, including steel I-beams added in 1960 and later repair recommendations, show how the bridge was adapted to changing traffic demands while preservation continued. Its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 recognized both its age and its significance within Pennsylvania’s surviving covered-bridge landscape.
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