Thomas Mill Covered Bridge

The Thomas Mill Covered Bridge, aka the Thomas Mill Bridge or the Thomas Mill Road Covered Bridge, is a historic, single-span, wooden covered bridge across the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Mill Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
Thomas Mill Covered Bridge in 1972
Location	Thomas Mill Rd., Wissahickon Valley Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°4′18″N 75°13′33″W
Built	1855
MPS	Covered Bridges of the Delaware River Watershed TR
NRHP reference No.	80003621[1]
Added to NRHP	December 1, 1980

The 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the City of Philadelphia in 2000.[2]

It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a Contributing Property of the Chestnut Hill Historic District.

The bridge is open to pedestrian traffic.

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  Bridge in 2010
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  HABS drawing

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Bridges". Friends of the Wissahickon. Retrieved January 4, 2014.

External links

Media related to Thomas Mill Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

• Listing, drawings, and photographs at the Historic American Buildings Survey
• Article at Drexel University
• "A Bridge Too Old", by Amy Choi, Philadelphia Citypaper, August 27–September 3, 1998
• Listing at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
• Listing and photographs at BridgeHunter.com
• Bridges of the Wissahickon, Friends of the Wissahickon