Longdon - NA
The Longdon L. Miller Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in West Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania. It utilizes the Queenpost design and the builder and year of construction are unknown. The Longdon Bridge is 67 feet long 7 inches long and 11 feet 10 inches wide, crossing Templeton Fork, Wheeling Creek. The structure is owned and maintained by the county and open to vehicular traffic. The bridge is also known as the Miller Covered Bridge.
This is another bridge that is well-secluded along a gravel township road. It is a rather long Queenpost truss structure that has four wooden trestle supports under its sixty-seven-foot-long deck. All of the barn red vertical board siding is in good shape on the sides and the portals being it was refurbished in 2001. It has a sheet metal roof and deck of crosswise planking and there are three rectangular windows on each side, one at each end and one in the center. in addition to the narrow eave openings. It rests on cut stone and mortar abutments that have been extended to form short stone and mortar wing walls, one of which is capped with concrete.
Of the 1,500 covered bridges that once stood in the state of Pennsylvania, as of 2019, approximately 200 remain.
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1979.
Located at: N39 58.70 W80 26.75 - WGCB #38-63-22
Photographed in May of 2015.