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Trevorton Bridge

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319: 296: 291: 176:. The bridge was 3,460 feet (1,050 m) long, with a 1,400-foot (430 m) trestle crossing White Island in the middle of the river. It was originally built in 1854 as a railroad bridge by the Susquehanna & Union Bridge Co., later a subsidiary of the 356: 385: 420: 390: 425: 349: 415: 405: 375: 180:
and, in September 1855, the bridge was adapted for use as a road bridge as well as for trains. The bridge was most often used to cross the Susquehanna by
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in the bark the pine used to construct the bridge). The bridge was eventually dismantled in 1870 for fear that it would collapse.
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was an uncovered wooden truss bridge that crossed the
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Coordinates
40°42′35″N 76°51′08″W / 40.70972°N 76.85222°W / 40.70972; -76.85222
Susquehanna River
Northumberland
truss bridge
Susquehanna River
Herndon
Northumberland County
Port Trevorton
Snyder County, Pennsylvania
Trevorton and Susquehanna Railroad
cattle
acid
List of crossings of the Susquehanna River




Seeing Pennsylvania
J. B. Lippincott Company
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Susquehanna River
Selinsgrove Bridge
Clarks Ferry Bridge


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expanding it
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