{"nrhp_refnum":"80003508","name":"Zook's Mill Covered Bridge","other_names":["Rose Hill Covered Bridge","Wenger's Covered Bridge"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"W of Brownstown on T 797, Warwick/West Earl Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brownstown","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.130610208000064,"lon":-76.23136148899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Burr truss covered bridge over Cocalico Creek, located on township road T797 west of Brownstown in Warwick and West Earl Townships, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is known locally as Zook's Mill, Rose Hill, or Wenger's Covered Bridge.","why_significant":"The document describes the bridge as one of the covered bridges of Lancaster County nominated under a multiple property listing. It was built in 1849 by Henry Zook and has a wooden shingle gable roof, cut stone abutments, and vertical plank siding. Reviewers noted that its trusses are in good condition and recommended adjusting the boundaries to fully encompass the abutments.","narrative":"Zook's Mill Covered Bridge is a Burr truss covered bridge crossing Cocalico Creek on township road T797, west of Brownstown in Warwick and West Earl Townships, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Henry Zook built it in 1849. It is 89 feet long at the end posts and 15 feet wide, with a wooden shingle gable roof, cut stone abutments, and vertical plank siding. The bridge is known locally by several names, including Rose Hill and Wenger's Covered Bridge. It was nominated as one of the covered bridges of Lancaster County, a group of surviving wooden bridges from the nineteenth century. Its trusses were found to be in good condition. The bridge is listed for its survival as a representative example of the county's covered bridge building tradition, with its Burr truss and stone abutments preserved from the period of its construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry Zook (builder)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.67137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003508.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003508/84fb76b0bc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003508/84fb76b0bc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.5","author":"Photo by and (c)2006 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zook%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge_Side_View_3000px.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by and (c)2006 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.5</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zook%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge_Side_View_3000px.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993207","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zook%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8074105"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/zooks-mill-covered-bridge-80003508/"}