About
Harrington Covered Bridge carries Barney Road (State Route 3003) over the West Branch of Conneaut Creek in Conneaut Township, Erie County. It is a single span multiple kingpost truss bridge 72 ft long and 14 ft wide. It is open to road traffic, with a load limit of 4 short tons and a clearance of 10 ft 11 in.
History
William Sherman, who also built the Gudgeonville and Carman covered bridges in the area, built the bridge around 1870. It was rebuilt in 1962. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 1980.
Design
A multiple kingpost truss repeats a series of vertical posts with diagonal braces between them along the span. The National Register record describes it simply as a kingpost truss.
Visiting
The bridge sits along a rural road a few miles south of Route 6N and a few miles west of Route 18. There is no parking area and the road shoulders near the bridge are narrow. Uncoveringpa notes that about 100 yards from the bridge the shoulder is wide enough to pull a car over.
Sources: Harrington Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Visiting the Covered Bridges of Erie County (Uncovering PA)
Photo: Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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