About
The Shriver Covered Bridge crosses Hargus Creek (also spelled Harqus) on Turkey Hollow Road, just off State Route 3011 south of Rogersville, in Center Township, Greene County. It is a 40 ft queenpost truss bridge built in 1900.
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 reconstructed in 2013 and reinforced with six steel I-beams.
Design
A queenpost truss uses two vertical posts joined at the top by a horizontal beam. Shriver has a tin-covered gable roof, unpainted random-width vertical board siding, a crosswise plank deck, and cut stone abutments with wingwalls that appear to have been laid dry, without mortar.
Visiting
The bridge is on Turkey Hollow Road, a short distance from Route 18, in a valley of farms.
Sources: Shriver Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Shriver 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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