{"nrhp_refnum":"80003416","name":"Ryot Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"S of Alum Bank on T 559, West St. Clair Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fishertown","county":"Bedford County","state":"PA","lat":40.14233231600008,"lon":-78.62477820599997,"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 wooden bridge carrying T559 across Dunnings Creek in West St. Clair Township, near Fishertown, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. It is a Burr truss bridge with a 75-foot end post length and a roadbed about 12 feet wide.","why_significant":"The nomination treats the bridge as eligible as an example of a type of transportation architecture, embodying 19th-century wood bridge technology that was once common in Bedford County. It is one of 14 surviving covered bridges in the county, and the nomination notes that the surveyed bridges represent the county's covered bridge tradition. Its high sidewalls, narrow window row under the eaves, and cut stone abutments are cited as distinguishing features.","narrative":"Ryot Covered Bridge is a Burr truss span carrying county road T559 over Dunnings Creek in West St. Clair Township, near Fishertown in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The bridge is 75 feet along its end posts, with a roadbed about 12 feet wide and a clearance of 11 feet 7 inches. Its high sidewalls leave a narrow row of windows beneath the eaves of a low gabled roof, and it rests on cut stone abutments. Bedford County once had many covered bridges of this kind, and the form counts fourteen that survive. Ryot is listed as a representative example of 19th-century wooden bridge construction, a method that once served rural road networks across the county. The bridge is owned by Bedford County and is recorded in good condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good on the form.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.294536-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003416.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003416/dcb4b49ac7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003416/dcb4b49ac7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Frank Kovalchek","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ryot_Covered_Bridge_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Frank Kovalchek</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ryot_Covered_Bridge_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryot_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7385333"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bedford-county/ryot-covered-bridge-80003416/"}