Pennsylvania’s Longest Covered Bridge in Port Royal, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s Longest Covered Bridge in Port Royal, Pennsylvania

Totaling a length of 278 feet across, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge is the longest covered bridge left in Pennsylvania. It crosses the Tuscarora Creek between Spruce Hill and Beale Townships, and is just one mile east of the Tuscarora Academy Museum. The need for a bridge spanning Tuscarora Creek goes back so far that there aren’t even any records of when the first one was built. There are records from 1901, however, of ice jams a…