About
Snyder Covered Bridge No. 17 crosses Roaring Creek in Locust Township, Columbia County, southeast of Slabtown. It is a queenpost truss bridge 60.2 ft long. No dated source found states whether it is currently open to vehicles.
History
The construction date is uncertain. Coveredbridges.net gives 1876, while Wikipedia gives 1860, and the Columbia-Montour visitors bureau says the exact construction date and builder are unknown. The County Bridge Book lists the bridge as near John Snyder's grist mill. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979, as one of the historic covered bridges of Columbia and Montour Counties.
Design
A queenpost truss uses two vertical posts tied together by a horizontal beam at the top, with diagonal braces, and suits short spans like this one. Snyder's largest span is 42 ft. Its deck is 14.1 ft wide with 9.2 ft of vertical clearance, and it has a galvanized steel roof.
Visiting
The bridge is on Snyder Bridge Road off Quaker Meeting House Road, east of PA Route 42, in a wooded rural setting. There is room to pull off the road near both ends of the bridge.
Sources: Snyder Covered Bridge No. 17 (Wikipedia), Snyder Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net), Snyder Covered Bridge (DiscoverNEPA)
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