Although these photos are slightly blurred, they are the only known pictures of the approaches to the covered bridge at Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The time that this bridge was constructed has not been found as of this writing, but it surely dates to the 19th century. It appears from the photograph that this bridge was of the type designed by Theodore Burr, a double-arch structure in which the arches rested on abutments on either side of the stream, and to which a king-post structure was added for additional strength. The bridge was demolished at about the same time improvements to Specktown Road were made in the late 1940s and the “s” curve was eliminated by cutting through the Riegle-Dietrich homestead.
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