{"nrhp_refnum":"79003828","name":"Devil's Den, McClurg Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"N of Paris crossing King's Creek, Hanover Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Paris","county":"Washington County","state":"PA","lat":40.424746234000054,"lon":-80.50657432699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered bridge over Kings Creek in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, known as the McClurg or Devil's Den Covered Bridge. It is a kingpost truss structure with vertical siding, a tin-covered gable roof and cut stone abutments.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the bridge as one of a group of surviving covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties that illustrate the once-common wood truss construction type in Pennsylvania. The bridges are described as having a comparatively high survival rate and as showing local design features in the simplicity of their truss types. The listing is part of a multiple property submission on these bridges.","narrative":"A wooden covered bridge crossing Kings Creek in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, the McClurg or Devil's Den Covered Bridge is a kingpost truss structure 24 feet long with a roadway 12 feet 3 inches wide. It has vertical board siding, a tin-covered gable roof and cut stone abutments, and each side wall is pierced by four windows. The bridge is one of a group of covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties documented together as a thematic resource. Its significance lies in its representation of wood truss bridge building, a construction type once common in Pennsylvania. The surviving bridges in these two rural counties are noted for their comparatively high survival rate and for local variations in truss simplicity and design. At the time of the nomination the bridge was in good condition and remained in use on a local road near Burgettstown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good; the form notes it is located near Burgettstown.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.35322-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79003828.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003828/e73f241286-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003828/e73f241286-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DevilsDenMcClurgCoveredBridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DevilsDenMcClurgCoveredBridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994011","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Den,_McClurg_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5267106"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/washington-county/devils-den-mcclurg-covered-bridge-79003828/"}