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Neff Mill - 1824
The 1824 Neff's Mill Covered Bridge or Bowman's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans Pequea Creek on the border between West Lampeter Township and Strasburg Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
This county-owned and maintained bridge has a single-span, wooden, double Burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. 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. It is purportedly the narrowest covered bridge in the county.
The covered bridge was originally built by Christian Brackbill in 1824 for an unknown cost. It was known as Bowman's Mill Covered Bridge. It was rebuilt in 1875 by James C. Carpenter at a cost of $1,860.
Span length: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.5 ft.
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 11, 1980.
Located at: N39 58.719 W76 13.546 - WGCB #38-36-22
Photographed in July of 2019.