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Bucher's Mill - 1891
The 1891 Bucher's Mill Covered Bridge or Butcher's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Cocalico Creek in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After the Landis Mill Covered Bridge, it is the second shortest covered bridge in the county at only 64 feet.
Bucher's Mill Bridge, a county-owned and maintained bridge, has its official designation as the Cocalico #2 Bridge.
The bridge has a single-span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck width is 13.1 feet and made from oak planks and has a vertical clearance above deck of 11.5 feet. It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County Covered Bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in the traditional white color. Lancaster County is home to 29 covered bridges, more than any other county in the state.
The Bucher's Mill Covered Bridge was built in 1891 by Elias McMellen, using single-span, wooden, double Burr arch-truss construction, at a cost of $1167. A year later, in 1892, the bridge was damaged heavily in a flood and was rebuilt by McMellen for $1025.
Of the 1,500 covered bridges that once stood in the state of Pennsylvania, as of 2019, approximately 200 remain.
In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Located at: N40 12.482 W76 08.081 - WGCB #38-36-12
Photographed in July of 2012.