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Pleasantville Bridge is a historic wooden
covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
located at Oley Township in
Berks County, Pennsylvania Berks County ( Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading. The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware Ri ...
. It is a ,
Burr Truss The Burr Arch Truss—or, simply, Burr Truss or Burr Arch—is a combination of an arch and a ''multiple kingpost'' truss design. It was invented in 1804 by Theodore Burr, patented on April 3, 1817, and used in bridges, usually covered bridges ...
bridge, constructed between 1852 and 1856. It was built in two stages due to wood shortages after the Great Flood of 1850. It crosses the
Manatawny Creek Manatawny Creek is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Can ...
. It is one of five covered bridges remaining in Berks County. ''Note:'' This includes It 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 1981.


Gallery

File:Pleasantville Covered Bridge, Spanning Little Manatawny Creek at Covered Bridge , Manatawny vicinity (Berks County, Pennsylvania).jpg, Pleasantville Covered Bridge detail, Summer 1999 (HAER Photo)


See also

*
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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Berks County Covered Bridges
* Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Covered bridges in Berks County, Pennsylvania Bridges completed in 1856 Wooden bridges in Pennsylvania Bridges in Berks County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Burr Truss bridges in the United States {{Pennsylvania-bridge-struct-stub