{"nrhp_refnum":"80003512","name":"Forry's Mill Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"NE of Columbia on T 362, Rapho/West Hempfield Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Columbia","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.06646082800006,"lon":-76.47809569699996,"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":"Forry's Mill Covered Bridge is a burr arch covered bridge carrying T362 across Chickies Creek in Rapho and West Hempfield townships, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1869.","why_significant":"The document describes it as one of the covered bridges of Lancaster County evaluated as a multiple property group. It has a burr arch truss, vertical board and batten siding, cut stone abutments, and a gable roof. The form notes its condition as fair.","narrative":"Forry's Mill Covered Bridge is a burr arch covered bridge that crosses Chickies Creek on township road T362 in Rapho and West Hempfield townships, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1869, it has a timber truss of the burr arch type, vertical board and batten siding, and a gable roof over a roadway about fifteen feet wide. Its cut stone abutments carry the structure over the creek. The bridge was one of the covered bridges of Lancaster County considered for listing as part of a multiple property group of county covered bridges. It is significant as a surviving example of the county's nineteenth-century covered bridge construction, with its truss form and wooden enclosure intact. The record rates its condition as fair.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"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 17:11:32.990493-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003512.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003512/08ddf8fc55-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003512/08ddf8fc55-1600.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:Forry%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge_Wide_Angle_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:Forry%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge_Wide_Angle_Side_View_3000px.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993213","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forry%27s_Mill_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5470574"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/forrys-mill-covered-bridge-80003512/"}