Wyit Sprowls - 1886
The 1865 Wyit Sprowls Covered Bridge was moved to the township park in East Finley Township of Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1998. The builder is unknown. Wyit Sprowls Bridge's total length is 52 feet and the width is 11 feet 6 inches. The bridge utilizes the Queenpost design and crosses Templeton Fork. The structure is owned and maintained by the county and is open to vehicular traffic.
This bridge is another typical Washington County covered bridge with vertical plank siding that is painted barn red both inside and out and features a tin-covered gable roof. It has crosswise deck planking, two rectangular windows on each side, and wooden trestle supports resting in the streambed. The major difference in this bridge is that both abutments are poured concrete and have been extended to form short concrete wing walls. Originally located in West Finley this bridge was named after Wyit Sprowls, who owned the surrounding land in the 1800s. Incidentally, the bridge was reconstructed with only two windows on each side, as opposed to the three it had initially.
Span length: 52 ft.
Total length: 52 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 June 22, 1979
Located at: N40 02.307 W80 24.190 - WGCB #38-63-29
Photographed in May of 2015.