His Burr arch trusses were used to build six covered bridges across the Susquehanna River between 1811 and 1818. The most dramatic of these endeavors was bridging the extremely deep, very narrow ...

In This State is a syndicated weekly column about Vermont’s innovators, people, ideas and places. Details are at maplecornermedia.com. This week’s story is by Nancy Price Graff. For two years ...

The Jericho bridge uses a design called Burr arch truss, designed by Pennsylvania bridge builder Theodore Burr in the early 1800s. In addition to vertical trusses that support the bridge structure ...

Moll said recently in a Berks Country article that the Burr Arch Truss design was the one used most often when building Berks’ covered bridges. The Dreibelbis Station Covered Bridge spanning the ...

The covered bridge was built in 1882 using the Burr Arch Truss design. The Burr Arch truss, as the design became known, used two long arches, resting on abutments on either end, that typically ...

It’s distinctive for having a Burr-arch truss design. *Bartram Bridge, Newtown Square: This bridge spans the Delaware/Chester county line over Crum Creek. Built in 1860 and restored in 1970 ...

Groninger, this bridge is considered to be a timber Burr truss bridge. The Burr Truss is a combination of an arch and post design, which was invented in 1804 by Theodore Burr. This design is seen ...

The Burr arch truss bridge is 50 feet 7 inches long with a clearance of 10 feet 6 inches. The Zimmerman Covered Bridge, also a Burr arch truss, is located just west of the Rock Covered Bridge and ...

EAST SHORE/WEST SHORE, Pa. (WHTM) — Since 1906, people have traveled between the two banks of the Susquehanna River over the Market Street Bridge. Next to the bridge at the Harrisburg end is a ...