1902: (Archived Bridge Hunter kept returning 503; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)
1935: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite) |
| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Photo of the Narrows Bridge, west, located on the Lincoln Highway (Route 30), at Bedford in Bedford County. [Some comments imply that this truss was moved and that it is still used. But the clues for the current location were not good enough to try to find it.] |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Newly constructed bridge on the Lincoln Highway (Route 30) over the Juniata River, 1 mile East of Bedford in 1941. Jackson-Township historical preservation posted again with the same comment. |
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| HAER PA,5-BED.V,1--5 5. 3/4 VIEW FROM EAST. - Narrows Bridge, Spanning Raystown Branch of Juniata River at Lincoln Hwighway (U.S. Route 30), Bedford, Bedford County, PA |
"Significance: The Narrows Bridge is an early example of a concrete arch bridge
built on a curving, skewed alignment. This open-spandrel
reinforced concrete bridge is the most recent of several at this
important crossing, which was on the Bedford-Chambersburg
Turnpike before it became part of the Lincoln Highway in the
1916. The Narrows Bridge was listed in the National Register of
Historic Places in 1988" [HAER_data]
Today's US-30 is obviously a modern highway. So I got a topo map to determine the US-30 route that used the 1902 bridge.
It is rather obvious from the topo map that the Lincoln Highway originally went down today's Pitt Street. I "cruised" that street with street view. I did not find anything specific about the Lincoln Highway like a wall mural, but I did find the downtown was along that road and that it still has some historical buildings.
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| 1902/1947 Everett and 1910/1947 Bedford Quads @ 62,500 |
It is rather obvious from the topo map that the Lincoln Highway originally went down today's Pitt Street. I "cruised" that street with street view. I did not find anything specific about the Lincoln Highway like a wall mural, but I did find the downtown was along that road and that it still has some historical buildings.
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| Street View, Nov 2024 |
So US-30 moved from the 1902 bridge to the 1935 bridge and then, sometime between 1968 and 1971, the highway crossed the river again and bypassed the town by using the north bank of the river.
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| 1968/70 Everett West and 1971/73 Bedford Quads @ 24,000 |
This street view confirmed that it is the river crossing documented by the 1968 topo map.
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| Street View, May 2025 |
Rather than replace this bridge, they rehabilitated it and increased the capacity by building a concrete girder bridge next to it.
According to some comments on ArchivedBridgeHunter, this work was done between 2003 and 2008.
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| 2012 photo by Jodi Christman via BridgeHunter |
J.R. Manning caught the dilapidated state of the bridge before the rehabilitation.
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| 2003 photo by J.R. Manning via BridgeHunter |
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