The Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge is a historical wooden covered bridge crossing over Trout Creek in the town of Hancock in Delaware County, New York, USA.

It was originally erected in the hamlet of Shaverton in 1877 as a crossing of Lower Beech Hill Brook and moved to its present location at Methol in 1954 crossing Trout Creek. It was moved to this location in 1954 by Carl Campbell and was, for a time, called Campbell’s Bridge.  It is 32 feet long and is a wood-plank-framed, gable-roofed, single-span bridge. Built in 1877 by Anson Jenkins and Agustus Neidig, it displays a non-functional Town truss patented on January 28, 1820, and again in 1835 by Ithiel Town of New Haven, Connecticut.  The Lower Shavertown has two such buttresses on each side.

This little bridge once crossed the mouth of Lower Beech Hill Brook at the southwest perimeter of Shavertown. It was originally known as the Methol or Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge. In 1953, when Carl Campbell from Roscoe, NY heard the Pepacton Reservoir was expected to cover this bridge, along with five small towns, he submitted a $1,000 bid for the structure. He thought it would make a perfect entrance to his hunting grounds. Mr. Campbell won the bid and the bridge was moved during the late summer of 1954.

On July 10, 2001, there was an unfortunate incident with this bridge. A fully loaded fuel truck, driven by a new driver, broke through the deck of the bridge and rode it down into the creekbed. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The truck driver suffered a few embarrassing moments, however, after he realized that he apparently missed the instructions on his delivery sheet that noted he should use the alternate bridge located about a mile down the road. Although the truck leaned into the truss, there was no apparent serious damage to it. A large wrecker winched the truck out without any further damage. As a result of the subsequent repairs, the new bridge floor is supported by a pair of steel I-beams with oak planks and running planks on top.

The original Town truss design no longer actually supports this bridge as it was originally designed to do, so it is now classified as a non-functional truss and considered a historic Stringer by the New York State Covered Bridge Society. 

It is one of 24 covered bridges in New York State and one of six bridges still standing in Delaware County.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Located at:  N41 55.402    W75 00.784     -     WGCB #32-13-07

 Photographed in August of 2015.