Poffenberger Road Bridge

United States historic place


Poffenberger Road Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°22′54″N 77°34′18″W / 39.38167°N 77.57167°W / 39.38167; -77.57167
Area	less than one acre
Built	1878 (1878)
Built by	Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Architectural style	Pratt or Whipple thru truss
NRHP reference No.	78001459^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 29, 1978

The Poffenberger Road Bridge, near Jefferson, Maryland, is a wrought iron bridge by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The bridge is similar to the Fourpoints Bridge elsewhere in Frederick County. The bridge is a single-span double-intersection Pratt truss. It was built circa 1878 and remains in daily use.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Cherilyn Widell (January 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Linganore Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Poffenberger Road Bridge.

Poffenberger Road Bridge, Frederick County, including photo in 1977, at Maryland Historical Trust
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MD-35, "Poffenberger Road Bridge, Spanning Catoctin Creek, Middletown, Frederick County, MD", 13 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

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