Sachs Covered Bridge

Sachs Covered Bridge, a 100-foot Town truss span over Marsh Creek near Gettysburg, was built around 1854 and became one of Pennsylvania’s few remaining examples of its wooden lattice design. During the Gettysburg campaign in July 1863, Union troops crossed it on the way to Gettysburg, and days later much of Robert E. Lee’s retreating army used the same route after the Confederate defeat. Its Civil War role helped make it one of the state’s best-known historic bridges. Preserved rather than replaced, it was closed to vehicles in 1968, listed on the National Register in 1980, and restored after severe flood damage in 1996.

Freedom Township, Pennsylvania · United States