White Bridge Covered Bridge Festival - 2011 .avi

The 2011 Festival will be held September 17-18 2011 at the bridge from 10:00 - 5:00 each day. Displays, Crafters, Vendors, Demonstrations, Civil War encampment and battle, Gospel Music, and LOTS of Home Cooked Food!

Music, crafts, demonstrations, Civil War Reenactment, childrens activities, and GREAT FOOD! No pets please
WHITE COVERED BRIDGE:
The White Bridge is the longest of the queenpost structures located within Greene County. There is, however, a discrepancy concerning the date of this bridges construction. With the exception of the 1990 state survey, which determined that the bridge was built in 1900, all other sources suggest that the White Bridge was constructed around 1919. Charles Morris, born in 1911, grew up near this area. He remembers the White Bridge being built when he was a young boy and that prior to the building of the bridge there was a foot log across the creek just west of where the bridge now stands. If one wanted to cross the creek with a wagon or buggy, you had to ford the creek even though at times the water was too deep to permit crossing at all. In addition to being the longest covered bridge in Greene County; White Bridge is also an exceptionally high queenpost structure. It has a clearance of 17 feet, 6 inches. With no evidence of steel reinforcement, the bridge boasts an exceptionally high load limit of ten-ton. It is covered with white vertical tongue-and-groove board siding on both the sides and the portals, a steel metal roof and a decking of lengthwise vertical planking in the tire track area laid over diagonal crosswise planking. The structure rests on cut stone-and-mortar wingwalls. There are typical narrow lengthwise openings under the eaves. * Bridge Number: 38-30-30 * Bridge Dimensions: 66'6" x 15' * Builder: unknown * Year: 1919 / restored in 2008 * Waterway: Whiteley Creek * Truss Type: Queenpost * Lat/Long Coordinance: N39 48.37 W80 03.65 * Bridge Location & Directions: WSW of Garards Fort, Greene Township. Fordyce Rd. (Garards Fort Rd., SR2017) west 2.0 miles from junction with Carmichaels Rd. in Garards Fort, south on Roberts Run Rd. 0.15 miles to the bridge. Approximately 9 miles from Carmichaels, PA.

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• White Covered Bridge
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• Crafters
• Vendors
• Demonstrations
• Gospel Music
• and LOTS of Home Cooked Food!
• Music
• crafts
• demonstrations
• Civil War Reenactment
• childrens activities