Hillsgrove Covered Bridge
by Jacqueline Whitcomb
Title
Hillsgrove Covered Bridge
Artist
Jacqueline Whitcomb
Medium
Painting - Oil
Description
The Hillsgrove bridge is the longest of the three covered bridges remaining in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. It is a Burrarch truss ocvered bridge crossing over the Loyalsock Creek. Built in c.1850, it is 186 feet long. The bridge served as a landing site for lumber rafts on the creek between 1870 and 1890. Nineteenth-century regulations restricting speed, numberl of animals and fire are still posted on the bridge. Becoming the first covered bridge in the county placed on the National Register of Historic Places, the bridge is still in use.
The original oil painting is done on a 15x30 in two-inch wrapped canvas.
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July 22nd, 2020
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