About
Rice Covered Bridge, also known as the Landisburg Covered Bridge, crosses Shermans Creek south of Landisburg in Tyrone Township, Perry County. It was built in 1869 and uses a combination of Burr arch and queenpost trusses. The Perry County PAGenWeb survey and Dale J. Travis give its length as 132 feet; Wikipedia gives 123 feet.
History
The bridge was built in 1869. 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. At Rice, the PAGenWeb survey notes two small queenpost trusses under the Burr arches, an unusual combination. It records a width of 18 feet.
Visiting
The bridge is on Kennedys Valley Road (State Route 3017), about 0.5 miles southwest of the junction of Pennsylvania Routes 233 and 850 in Landisburg. The sources reviewed do not state whether it carries vehicle traffic today.
Sources: Rice Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Perry County Covered Bridges (PAGenWeb), Landisburg or Rice Bridge (Dale J. Travis)
Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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