Built 1866 Opened 1866 Body of water French Creek | Built by Hartman, Benjamin F. NRHP Reference # 73001608 Area 8,000 m² Added to NRHP 18 June 1973 | |
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Location Rapps Dam Road off of Route 23, East Pikeland Township, Pennsylvania MPS Covered Bridges of Chester County TR (AD) Similar Hares Hill Road Bridge, Kennedy Bridge, Chester County Courthouse | ||
Rapps Bridge, also known as Rapps Dam Bridge, is one of fifteen surviving historic wooden covered bridges in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Rapps Bridge is located on Rapps Dam Road in East Pikeland Township. It is a 105-foot-long (32 m), Burr truss bridge, constructed in 1866 by Benjamin F. Hartman. It has fieldstone abutments, horizontal siding and boxed cornices with returns at its portals. It is one of three covered bridges that cross French Creek, the others being Hall's Bridge and Kennedy Bridge.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The Rapps Bridge was renovated in 1978 and again in 2011 for approximately 1.5 million dollars. On April 29, 2014, the bridge was heavily damaged when a tractor trailer crossed it. It re-opened in October 2015.