Pleasantville Bridge

	Pleasantville Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Pleasantville Covered Bridge, October 2009
Location	South of Mantawny on Township 916, Oley Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°22′44″N 75°44′21″W / 40.37889°N 75.73917°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1852, 1856
Built by	Renno, David; Bitner, Jonathan
MPS	Berks County Covered Bridges TR
NRHP reference No.	81000533
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1981

Pleasantville Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Oley Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is a 126-foot-long (38 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed between 1852 and 1856. It was built in two stages due to wood shortages after the Great Flood of 1850. It crosses the Little Manatawny Creek. It is one of five covered bridges remaining in Berks County.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.^[1]

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Pleasantville Covered Bridge detail, Summer 1999 (HAER Photo)

References

^ ^a ^b "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 Susan M. Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pleasantville Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-09-15.

External links

Berks County Covered Bridges
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-491, "Pleasantville Covered Bridge, Spanning Little Manatawny Creek at Covered Bridge Road (State Route 1030), Manatawny, Berks County, PA", 9 photos, 1 color transparency, 6 measured drawings, 8 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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[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 Susan M. Zacher (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Pleasantville Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-09-15.

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