Poffenberger Road Bridge

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Poffenberger Road Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	Poffenberger Road over Catoctin Creek, Middletown, Maryland
Coordinates	39°22′54″N 77°34′18″W / 39.38167°N 77.57167°W / 39.38167; -77.57167
Area	less than one acre
Built	1878 (1878)
Built by	Wrought Iron Bridge Company
Architectural style	Pratt or Whipple thru truss
NRHP reference No.	78001459^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 29, 1978

The Poffenberger Road Bridge, near Jefferson, Maryland, is a wrought iron bridge by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The bridge is similar to the Fourpoints Bridge elsewhere in Frederick County. The bridge is a single-span double-intersection Pratt truss. It was built circa 1878 and remains in daily use.^[2]

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