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Old Stone Arch Bridge (Lewistown, Pennsylvania)

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Built
  
1813 (1813)

NRHP Reference #
  
09000096

Area
  
8,000 m²

Built by
  
Diehl, Philip

Opened
  
1813

Added to NRHP
  
18 April 1979

Old Stone Arch Bridge (Lewistown, Pennsylvania)

Location
  
Over Jack's Creek, southeast of Lewistown, Pennsylvania

The Old Stone Arch Bridge is a single-span stone arch bridge which crosses Jack's Creek in Derry Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Philip Diehl built the bridge in 1813 as part of the Harrisburg to Pittsburgh Turnpike; it is the oldest bridge of its type in central Pennsylvania. The turnpike had been authorized in 1807, and the section from Harrisburg to Lewistown, on which the bridge lies, was completed in 1818. Lithographers Currier and Ives made prints of the bridge in 1850.

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1979.

References

Old Stone Arch Bridge (Lewistown, Pennsylvania) Wikipedia