The Waterford Covered Bridge is an 86-foot (26 m) Town lattice truss covered bridge crossing LeBoeuf Creek in Waterford Township, Erie County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built in 1875 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 1980. The bridge was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936.
It is the only Town lattice truss bridge in Erie County and one of only nineteen in Pennsylvania. The bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the Federal Highway Administration National Bridge Inventory was only 18.4 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of replacement."
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