{"nrhp_refnum":"80003418","name":"Halls Mill Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"N of Everett on T 528, Hopewell Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hopewell","county":"Bedford County","state":"PA","lat":40.12416921800008,"lon":-78.31703281999995,"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 shallow gable-roofed covered bridge over Yellow Creek in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, carrying T528 with a 91-foot end post length and a 9-foot roadbed. The form dates it to 1872 and lists the Burr truss type.","why_significant":"The nomination treats the bridge as an example of 19th-century wood bridge technology once common in Bedford County, and as eligible under transportation. Reviewers noted that the bridge is one of 14 extant covered bridges in the county surveyed as a group. The form also records foundations of the older Hall's Mill at the west end.","narrative":"A covered bridge over Yellow Creek in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, dating from 1872. It is a shallow gable-roofed structure with low sidewalls that leave the Burr trussing system open to view. The bridge spans 91 feet at the end posts and has a 9-foot roadbed within a 12-foot-6-inch overall width, with 12 feet of vertical clearance. It carries road T528 and is owned by Bedford County. Foundations of the earlier Hall's Mill survive at the west end of the bridge, linking the crossing to the mill that once stood beside it. Bridges of this type were once common across Bedford County, and this example is one of the surviving covered bridges documented in the county survey. It is valued as a representative of 19th-century timber bridge building and the transportation network it served, and its open truss construction shows how these structures were engineered.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Burr truss covered bridge","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as fair.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.82723-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003418.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003418/3ad216aef8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003418/3ad216aef8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"dougtone","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halls_Mill_Covered_Bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">dougtone</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halls_Mill_Covered_Bridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992290","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halls_Mill_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5643155"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bedford-county/halls-mill-covered-bridge-80003418/"}