The 1875 Sprowls Covered Bridge was built utilizing the Kingpost design, but its builder is unknown. The bridge is 36 feet long and 12 feet 7 inches wide, crosses Rocky Run in Washington County, and is owned and maintained by the county and open to vehicular traffic.

Sprowls Bridge is located in a secluded rural valley on a gravel township road.  It has a tin-covered gable roof, vertical siding on the walls and portals, and is painted barn red inside and out.  The bridge reveals square windows cut into the sidewalls, in addition to the narrow openings under the eaves.  The Sprowls has a deck of crosswise planking and rests on stone and mortar abutments reinforced with concrete.  It has stone and mortar wing walls capped with concrete. This is another covered bridge whose history remains unknown.

The bridge was temporarily closed in 2000 due to damage caused by mining operations in the area.  Repairs have since been made as the truss structure was severely twisted, and wide cracks developed in the abutments.

Length of largest span:  26.9 feet
Total length:  36.1 feet
Deck width:  11.2 feet
Vertical clearance above deck:  12 feet

Of the 1,500 covered bridges that once stood in the state of Pennsylvania, as of 2019, approximately 200 remain.

Sprowls Bridge was posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1979.

Located at:  N40 00.647   W80 24.408      -      WGCB #38-63-03

Photographed in June of 2018

Photos by Millard Farmer