Twin Bridges-West Paden Covered Bridge No. 121

	Twin Bridges-West Paden Covered Bridge No. 121
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The original West Paden Covered Bridge in 1982
Location	Pennsylvania Route 371, south of Catawissa, Fishing Creek Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	41°6′25″N 76°21′25″W / 41.10694°N 76.35694°W
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1850
Built by	Peter Ent
Architectural style	Burr Truss-Arch
MPS	Covered Bridges of Columbia and Montour Counties TR
NRHP reference No.	79003179
Added to NRHP	November 29, 1979

The Twin Bridges-West Paden Covered Bridge No. 121 is an historic, American, wooden, covered bridge that is located in Fishing Creek Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

History and architectural features

This historic structure is a 112-foot-long (34 m), Burr Truss bridge. Erected in 1850, it crosses the Huntington Creek and is one of twenty-eight historic covered bridges that are located in Columbia and Montour Counties. It is a twin of the Twin Bridges-East Paden Covered Bridge No. 120.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1] The bridge was destroyed in a flood on June 28, 2006; an identical replacement was subsequently built and dedicated on October 15, 2008.^[3]

Gallery

Interior, West Paden Covered Bridge, May 2014
West Paden Covered Bridge, May 2014

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Bill Pennesi and Susan M. Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Twin Bridges-East Paden Covered Bridge No. 120" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-19.
^ Robert Parks (November 2010). "Trials and Tribulations of a Historic Pair of Covered Bridges" (PDF). Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2012.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Bill Pennesi and Susan M. Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Twin Bridges-East Paden Covered Bridge No. 120" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-19.

[3] Robert Parks (November 2010). "Trials and Tribulations of a Historic Pair of Covered Bridges" (PDF). Columbia-Montour Visitors Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2012.

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