Se of Girard on T 460, Girard Township, Girard, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Erie.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 17, 1980. NRIS 80003491.
1 contributing structure.
The Gudgeonville Covered Bridge was an 84-foot (25.6 m) long Multiple King-post Truss covered bridge over Elk Creek in Girard Township, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built in 1868 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980. It was destroyed by arson on November 8, 2008.
It was the oldest of the three remaining covered bridges in Erie County. The bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the Federal Highway Administration National Bridge Inventory was only 14.6 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action".
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992892