The Kurtz's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that now spans Mill Creek in the Lancaster County Park in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The bridge is also known as the County Park Covered Bridge, Baer's Mill Covered Bridge, Isaac Baer’s Mill Bridge, Keystone Mill Covered Bridge, Binder Tongue Carrier Covered Bridge, and Mill 2A Covered Bridge. The bridge is accessible to road traffic from within the park.
The bridge has a single span, wooden, double burr arch trusses design with the addition of steel hanger rods. The deck is made from oak planks. It is painted red, the traditional color of Lancaster County covered bridges, on both the inside and outside. Both approaches to the bridge are painted in red with white trim. It is 94 feet in legnth and 11 feet 8 inches wide (inside), with a total width of 15 feet, and an overhead clearence of 11 feet 6 inches. The bridge is a typical example of a Lancaster truss bridges, like the other covered spans. Its length is 90 feet and it is entirely made of wood, oak for the floor planks.
Kurtz's Mill Bridge was originally known as Isaac Baer’s Mill Bridge, it was built over the Conestoga River in 1876 by W. W. Upp for $1407.00, the bridge was damaged in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes. That flood in 1972 picked up the bridge and moved it down stream. Once they collected all the pieces and parts, it was moved 15 miles away where it still sits today. This is probably why this is the only bridge not listed on the National Register of Historic Places, even though it was built in the 1800s. It was loaded on a tractor trailer and moved to it's current location, now spanning Mill Creek a tributary of the Conestoga River, in lancaster County Park. It was reconstructed and repaired in 1975 by David Esh for $75,000 including the addition of new abutments.
LETTERBOX: The letterbox is hidden inside a stately tree. You are looking for a Thirty caliber ammo can. Please leave the stamp and pad inside the cache as these are part of the letterbox. Use the Parking Coordinants to park, there is also a nearby picnic area with the capacity to grill if your interested in a picnic. Use the clues below or solve the puzzle to find the Letterbox.
From parking you will not fail
If you just stay on that trail
From under bridge up creek go,
Over foot bridge with crick below.
up tiny hill, left stately tree ajar,
if in the sun well, you've gone to far.
When at the stately tree
Look in and the cache you will see
Using published co-ords is best
Look Eighty degrees to the east,
And at a very short 213 feet away
Is the cache that will make your day
HAPPY CACHING!