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Wooddale Bridge

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Covered bridge

Body of water
  
Red Clay Creek

Built
  
c. 1850 (1850)

NRHP Reference #
  
73000552

Added to NRHP
  
11 April 1973

Wooddale Bridge

Location
  
Foxhill Ln. over Red Clay Creek, Wooddale, Delaware

Address
  
7 Delaware 4, Wilmington, DE 19804, USA

Similar
  
Ashland Covered Bridge, Red Clay Creek, John Dickinson House, Nemours Mansion and Gard, Gov William H Ross Hou

Wooddale Bridge is a covered bridge over Red Clay Creek at Wooddale in New Castle County, Delaware. It is one of three covered bridges in the state of Delaware along with the very similar Ashland Covered Bridge and the Smith Bridge. The Wooddale Bridge is a Town lattice truss bridge following a design by Ithiel Town and is approximately 72 feet (22 m) long. The original bridge was built about 1850 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. It was destroyed by flooding from Tropical Storm Henri in 2003. The bridge was rebuilt by the Delaware Department of Transportation in 2007–8 with design modifications to make it more flood-resistant.

References

Wooddale Bridge Wikipedia