This bridge is located just off Twp. Route 412, approximately 1 mile south of State Route 2029, about 2 miles south of Breezewood in E. Providence Twp. The bridge was built in 1875 at the cost of $1284 by A.D. Bottomfield and Joe Pee. The structure utilizes a Burr Arch design, is 91 feet long and crosses Brush Creek. During the storm that caused the Johnstown Flood of May 31, 1889, the bridge was washed about 200 yards downstream. John G. Rohm, Jr. and William B. Karns reset the bridge at its present location at a cost of $675. Karns and Rohm seem to have taken credit for the bridge during it’s resetting since their names are now listed as the builders of the bridge over the portals on both ends. The kingpost truss approach spans were constructed at that time.
Extensive refurbishing was done in 1991 bringing the bridge back into the list of most picturesque bridges in Bedford County. The bridge is named for M.J. Jackson who bought the adjacent mill in 1867, a photo of which I posted earlier. The mill was built in 1839. Bedford County owns and maintains the bridge and it is open to daily vehicular traffic though in the area it is located, I think you could probably count on one hand the number of people driving over the bridge on any given day. The bridge but not the mill was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1980 as Structure # 80003414.
I shot this on back on Saturday 8-15-2009 as seven bracketed Raw frames and then combined them into an HDR and tone mapped the image with Photomatix Pro.
