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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. |
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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 try to determine the US-30 route back in 1941.
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 |
Given the revision date for the Everett Quad, I first thought that the bridge was here.
But when I got the next available topo maps to see how the route of US-30 changed, I wondered if it was here. Note that Pitt Street must have been bypassed between 1968 and 1971.
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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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