{"nrhp_refnum":"80003413","name":"Feltons Mill Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"LR 05021, East Providence Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bedford","county":"Bedford County","state":"PA","lat":39.97298251400008,"lon":-78.28853544099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered bridge in East Providence Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, spanning Brush Creek near Felton's Mill. It is a Burr truss bridge with a 105-foot end post length, dated 1892 on the form.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the bridge is eligible as an example of a type of transportation architecture, embodying wood bridge technology of the 19th century that was once common in Bedford County. It is one of the county's extant covered bridges, and the form treats it as part of the Covered Bridges of Bedford County thematic group.","narrative":"Felton's Mill Covered Bridge is a wooden Burr truss bridge carrying a county road across Brush Creek in East Providence Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is dated 1892 on the nomination form. The bridge has a high sidewall and a moderately pitched gable roof with wide overhangs. Its span is 105 feet end post to end post, with a roadway about 9 feet 6 inches wide and an overhead clearance of 11 feet 7 inches. Bedford County owns the structure, and it is closed to traffic. It was listed as part of a group of covered bridges in the county. The bridge is significant as an example of 19th-century wood bridge construction. Covered bridges of this kind were once common in Bedford County, and the nomination counts it among the county's surviving examples of that technology and of transportation engineering.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Closed to traffic.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.805566-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003413.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003413/368a9c4cb9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003413/368a9c4cb9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feltons_Mill_Covered_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feltons_Mill_Covered_Bridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992282","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltons_Mill_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5442684"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bedford-county/feltons-mill-covered-bridge-80003413/"}