Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad explained

Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Coordinates:39.7289°N -76.3303°W
Built:1875
Architect:S.M. Manifold, John A. Barnett
Architecture:Trestle
Added:May 4, 1995
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:95000550

Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad is a historic wooden trestle railroad bridge in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1875, and measures about 393adj=midNaNadj=mid overall. It was built by the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad to connect two rises of land divided by a ravine. It is one of only two trestle bridges to remain from the original railroad, the other being the Taylor trestle, in York Township, PA, between Red Lion, PA and Dallastown, PA.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. 2011-12-17. 2007-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H097666_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad]. 2011-12-08. Thomas N. Shaffer. PDF. June 1992.