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Bridge in Franconia Township is a historic stone
arch bridge An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side. A viaduct ...
spanning
Skippack Creek Skippack Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of Perkiomen Creek in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''K ...
at Elvoy in Franconia Township,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Montgomery County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the third-most populous county in Pennsylvania and the 73rd-most populous county in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the county was 856,55 ...
. The bridge was built in 1837 and reconstructed in 1874. It has two spans with an overall length of . ''Note:'' This includes The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1988.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Bridges See also * List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Notes Refe ...


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* {{NRHP bridges Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Bridges completed in 1837 Bridges in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Stone arch bridges in the United States