Silver Springs Covered Bridge 1884-1972

About the photo in the Header:

Silver Springs Covered bridge was in Columbia County Pennsylvania. The Fred Yenerall collection has several photos of the bridge before it collapsed. I love the photos of this bridge, it was so long, so pretty, and even though it was pretty beaten up, it still showed up so well in photographs.

Out of all the photos of the Covered bridges - This one is my favorite.



Silver Springs Covered Bridge 1884
38-21-02
Photo date unknown.
Bridge collapsed during the hurricane Agnes in June 1972


Silver Springs Covered Bridge
38-21-02
This bridge was reported to have been 246 feet long, and built in 1884.
This bridge collapsed and was destroyed by a flood from Hurricane Agnes in 1972.
This photo was taken April 1969.

About the photo in Banner

Of all the photos that I have scanned I think this one is my favorite.

This is a photo of Silver Springs Covered bridge. It was located in Cumberland County. The date this photo was taken was 1969.

The bridge was builtover the Conodoguinet Creek in 1884 by John L Perchant. This 2 span bridge was 246 feet long, and 19feet wide. As you can see in the photo this bridge was in bad shape in 1969. It was destroyed in June 1972 by flooding from Hurricane Agnes.

*details about bridge was found at www.lostbridges.org This is a great site to do research on. Their database is growing all the time.

All of the Fred Yenerall Collection is hosted at Smugmug.