Skippack Bridge, also known as Montgomery County Bridge No. 142, is a historic

stone arch 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 (a ...

bridge located near Evansburg in Lower Providence 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 1792 and repaired in 1874. It has eight spans, is wide, with an overall length of . The bridge carries Germantown Pike across

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 ...

. ''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 1970.

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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania 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 {{Pennsylvania-bridge-struct-stub

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