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Description Schuylkill Permanent Bridge at High Street, the first covered bridge in America, completed in 1805, Library Company of Philadelphia. Published in John F. Watson, Annals of Philadelphia (1830). Note: Built to replace a pontoon bridge at High Street (now Market) this new bridge was covered to protect it from the elements. Designed by Timothy Palmer; woodwork and ornamentation by Owen Biddle. Widened in 1850 to accommodate a railroad connection with the Columbia and Pennsylvania Railroads; destroyed by fire in 1875.
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