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Manasses Guth - 1858
The 1858 Manasses Guth Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located in South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 108-foot-long and 18-foot-wide, Burr Truss bridge, with vertical siding which crosses Jordan Creek. Five Lehigh County Covered Bridges cross Joran Creek.
The original bridge that was built in 1858 was partially destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1882. Local farmers and travelers forded the Jordan at this site prior to 1858. The builder of the original structure is unknown. The bridge was named after Manasses Guth, who lived in the adjacent stone farmhouse and was a descendant of Lorentz Guth, the first settler in the area in 1745. The Manasses Guth Bridge, which is at the eastern edge of Covered Bridge Park, is built with the Burr arch-truss design, has lengthwise planking, and rests on stone and mortar abutments with long wing walls capped with concrete. The bridge that anchors the eastern end of South Whitehall Township's Covered Bridge Park is Manassas Guth's Bridge. It joins the Wehr Covered Bridge as bookends to this unique park along Jordan Creek.
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 December 1, 1980.
Located at: N40 37.776 W75 33.201 - WGCB #38-39-03
Photographed in July of 2019.