Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad

Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad
Location Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad tracks over an unnamed stream, east of Bunker Hill Road, north of Delta, Peach Bottom Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°43′44″N 76°19′49″W / 39.72889°N 76.33028°W / 39.72889; -76.33028Coordinates: 39°43′44″N 76°19′49″W / 39.72889°N 76.33028°W / 39.72889; -76.33028
Area less than one acre
Built 1875
Architectural style Other, Trestle
MPS Railroad Resources of York County MPS
NRHP Reference # 95000550[1]
Added to NRHP May 4, 1995

Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad is a historic wooden trestle railroad bridge in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1875, and measures about 393-foot-long (120 m) overall. It was built by the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad to connect two rises of land divided by a ravine. It is the only bridge to remain from the original railroad.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Thomas N. Shaffer (June 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Delta Trestle Bridge, Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-12-08.


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