A Guide to

Old Covered Bridges

of Southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby areas

Thomas Mill Bridge

The Only Standing Historic Covered Bridge within Philadelphia City Limits


Covered bridges symbolize small-town America. Something from the nineteenth century, a little archaic and strange to nineteen-nineties eyes, picturesque and sentimental, "kissing bridges" recall a time when life was simpler and closer to the land -- if only in our dreams. Covered bridges complement autumn leaves and autumn emotions. Photogenic and often remote from the Interstate Highways and cities of the twentieth century, covered bridges lure the explorer to find the little streams and dirt roads that the twentieth century has almost passed by.

These documents are a guide to the old covered bridges of Southeastern Pennsylvania and nearby areas, that is, the counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Philadelphia, and nearby New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware State.


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In 2003 we added a section on New Hampshire covered bridges with rambles based in Keene, N. H. It was lost in our disk crash in spring of '05. We have found a duplicate, finally, on a disused laptop! So New Hampshire is back in our collection. Enjoy.


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