About
Dreibelbis Station Covered Bridge crosses Maiden Creek between Greenwich and Windsor Townships, Berks County, south of Lenhartsville. It is a one-lane, single-span Burr arch truss bridge built in 1869. Its National Register listing gives a length of 172 feet; coveredbridges.net gives 168 feet and dalejtravis.com gives 190 feet. It carries Covered Bridge Road and is open to traffic.
History
The bridge was built in 1869. Coveredbridges.net reports that its timber was hauled from Schuylkill County and cut at the Dreibelbis saw mill. When the Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad reached the east bank of Maiden Creek in 1874, the area took the name Dreibelbis Station from the train stop. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1981, as part of the Berks County Covered Bridges multiple property submission, and the Historic American Engineering Record documented it as HAER PA-587. Dalejtravis.com lists a rehabilitation completed in 2020.
Design
It is a Burr arch truss, a long timber arch on each side combined with a multiple kingpost truss, with the arch ends bearing on the abutments.
Visiting
From Penn Street in Lenhartsville, take PA 143 south for 1.7 miles, then turn east on Covered Bridge Road to the bridge, according to dalejtravis.com. The bridge is open to vehicles.
Sources: Dreibelbis Station Bridge (Wikipedia), Dreibelbis Station 38-06-07 (dalejtravis.com), Dreibelbis Station Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net)
Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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