{"nrhp_refnum":"79002358","name":"Sawhill Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"PA 221","address_restricted":false,"city":"Taylorstown","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.18017381400006,"lon":-80.41614412299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered bridge over Buffalo Creek near Taylorstown, Washington County, Pennsylvania, built in 1915 as a queenpost truss structure measuring 49 feet long and 12 feet 6 inches wide.","why_significant":"The document describes the bridge as one of a group of covered bridges in Washington and Greene counties nominated together as a thematic resource. It notes that these rural bridges are a comparatively high-survival example of a once common bridge type in Pennsylvania, and that they illustrate the simplicity of their truss types and local design features.","narrative":"Built in 1915 over Buffalo Creek near Taylorstown in Washington County, Pennsylvania, the Sawhill Covered Bridge is a queenpost truss structure 49 feet long with a roadway 12 feet 6 inches wide. It has vertical wood siding and a raised seam tin-covered gable roof, and it carries a local road close to Pennsylvania Route 221. It was nominated as one of a group of covered bridges in Washington and Greene counties. Covered bridges of this common nineteenth and early twentieth century type were once widespread in Pennsylvania, and this group has a comparatively high survival rate in these rural counties. The bridges show the simple truss forms and local design features that characterized their construction in the region. Their survival is the basis for regarding the group as an important surviving record of this wooden bridge technology.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queenpost truss covered bridge","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.524034-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002358.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002358/4468d8250d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002358/4468d8250d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sawhill_Covered_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sawhill_Covered_Bridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994025","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawhill_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7428635"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/sawhill-covered-bridge-79002358/"}