Carmichaels Covered Bridge

About

The Carmichaels Covered Bridge, officially Greene County Bridge #11, carries Old Town Road over Muddy Creek in the borough of Carmichaels, Greene County. It is a 64 ft queenpost truss bridge dated 1889. Greene County owns and maintains it, and it is still in use.

History

The sign on the bridge gives 1889 as its date. Coveredbridges.net, citing a local borough history, says a bridge has stood at the site since the founding of Old Town and that 1889 was the year of a renovation rather than original construction. The bridge was rehabilitated in 1998. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1979, as part of the Covered Bridges of Washington and Greene Counties group, and it was one of nine historic covered bridges in Greene County as of October 1978. It is one of the original sites of the Washington and Greene Counties Covered Bridge Festival, held each September.

Design

A queenpost truss uses two vertical posts joined at the top by a horizontal beam, which lets it span farther than a single kingpost. Carmichaels has vertical board and batten siding, a gable roof of raised seam tin, and abutments of cut stone and concrete. It is about 15 ft wide.

Visiting

The bridge sits beside the small downtown of Carmichaels, among houses, with white picket fencing leading up to it. Uncovering PA suggests parking on North Market Street. The land around the bridge is privately owned.

Sources: Carmichaels Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Carmichael's Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net), Covered Bridges of Greene County (Uncovering PA)

Photo: Kathy from just livin' in a small town in SW PA, U, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.