{"nrhp_refnum":"80003536","name":"Erb's Covered Bridge","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"N of Rothsville T 634, Ephrata/Warwick Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rothsville","county":"Lancaster County","state":"PA","lat":40.167683828000065,"lon":-76.24389155599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Engineering","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A covered bridge over Hammer Creek on T634 near Rothsville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, built in 1887. It is a Burr truss bridge, 80 feet long and 15 feet wide.","why_significant":"The bridge is one of the covered bridges of Lancaster County considered under a multiple-property thematic nomination on covered bridges and their wood frame construction types in the 19th century. The document notes that it is in good condition, with good trusses, and that its abutments are cut stone.","narrative":"Erb's Covered Bridge is a Burr truss structure carrying T634 across Hammer Creek north of Rothsville in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1887, the bridge spans 80 feet and is 15 feet wide. It has vertical board and batten siding, gable ends, and window openings at the eave level, and it rests on cut stone abutments. Its place in the county's covered bridge group is the main reason for listing. The nomination was prepared as part of a thematic study of covered bridges in Lancaster County, which examined the 19th-century wood frame construction types used across the county. Among the bridges considered, Erb's was judged a good candidate for its representation of those types. The trusses are described as being in good condition, and the bridge is one of the surviving examples of a regional building type that reflects local engineering practice in the late 1800s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Burr truss","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 17:11:33.624454-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003536.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003536/f1f4ea8262-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003536/f1f4ea8262-1600.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:Erb%27s_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:Erb%27s_Covered_Bridge_Side_View_3000px.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erb%27s_Covered_Bridge","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5385088"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lancaster-county/erbs-covered-bridge-80003536/"}