About
The King Covered Bridge crosses Hoover Run south of Kuhntown in Wayne Township, Greene County, on Kings Sister Hill Road just off State Route 3013. It is a queenpost truss bridge built in 1890 and about 46 ft long (46.5 ft in the National Register record). It is the southernmost covered bridge in the county, a couple of miles north of the West Virginia border.
History
The builder is not recorded in the sources used here. The bridge 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 was restored in 2004, when five steel beams were added.
Design
A queenpost truss uses two vertical posts joined at the top by a horizontal beam. King has a tin-covered gable roof, unpainted vertical board siding, crosswise deck planking, cut stone abutments with short wingwalls, and a narrow lengthwise opening under the eaves.
Visiting
The bridge is on Kings Sister Hill Road off State Route 3013. Uncovering PA notes that the wooded setting and No Trespassing signs on the surrounding land make the bridge easy to miss, and that there is no cell reception in the area.
Sources: King Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), King Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net), Covered Bridges of Greene County (Uncovering PA)
Photo: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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