Lower Shavertown Bridge

Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge
Location 682 Methol Rd., Methol, New York
Coordinates 41°55′24″N 75°0′49″W / 41.92333°N 75.01361°W / 41.92333; -75.01361Coordinates: 41°55′24″N 75°0′49″W / 41.92333°N 75.01361°W / 41.92333; -75.01361
Area less than one acre
Built 1877
Architect Jenkins, Anson; Neidig, Augustus
NRHP Reference # 99000504[1]
Added to NRHP April 29, 1999

Lower Shavertown Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Trout Creek in the town of Hancock in Delaware County, New York, USA. It was originally erected in the hamlet of Shaverton in 1877 as a crossing of Lower Beech Hill Brook, and moved to its present location at Methol in 1954. It is 32 feet long and is a wood-plank-framed, gable-roofed, single-span bridge. It is one of 29 covered bridges in New York State.[2]

Front of the bridge

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

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