South Road Bridge, Northern Central Railway is a historic stone

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railroad bridge in

Springfield Township, York County, Pennsylvania Springfield Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 6,023 at the 2020 census. History The South Road Bridge, Northern Central Railway was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 ...

, USA. It was built about 1871. The

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and brick bridge was built by the

Northern Central Railway The Northern Central Railway (NCRY) was a Class I Railroad connecting Baltimore, Maryland with Sunbury, Pennsylvania, along the Susquehanna River. Completed in 1858, the line came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in 1861, wh ...

and crosses the

South Branch Codorus Creek Codorus Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River in York County, Pennsylvania in the United States.Gertler, Edward. ' ...

. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to 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 1995.

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