About
Bistline Covered Bridge, also known as Flickinger's Mill Covered Bridge, crosses Shermans Creek south of Andersonburg in Southwest Madison Township, Perry County, near Blain. It is a Burr arch truss bridge built about 1871. Wikipedia and Uncovering PA give its length as 96 feet; coveredbridges.net lists 96 feet as the span and 103 feet as the total length.
History
The bridge was built about 1871. No builder is recorded in these sources. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1980, as part of the Covered Bridges of Adams, Cumberland, and Perry Counties group.
Design
A Burr arch truss pairs a long timber arch with a multiple kingpost truss on each side of the bridge. Coveredbridges.net records a width of 13.8 feet and a vertical clearance of 11 feet above the deck.
Visiting
The bridge is on Bistline Bridge Road (Legislative Route 50008), about a mile south of Pennsylvania Route 274. Uncovering PA notes a pull-off on the north side of the bridge. The sources reviewed do not state whether it carries vehicle traffic today.
Sources: Bistline Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Bistline Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net), Perry County Covered Bridges (Uncovering PA)
Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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