necessary to be built according to yesterday's minute." "1754—February 6.—The Commis- sioners and Assessors met according to adjournment,.and having had under their consideration that the building of a stone bridge over Conestoga Creek, according to their minutes of �the ninth of August, last, page 109

, Thomas Boude & Samuel Miller. "Resolved that the President be and he is hereby authorized to advertise in one Newspaper printed in New York, two in Philadelphia, the Lancaster Journal, Susquehanna Watterman & Y ork Recorder for plans & proposals for Building the Bridge, and that the same shall be

The Fifth Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge Robert S. Mayo, C. E. Until November 11, 1930, all the main line traffic of U.S. 30, the Lincoln Highway, crossed the Susquehanna on a bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was a single-track bridge, the ties of which were covered with wood planks to give

asking the authority of the voters to increase the indebtedness of York County $1,500,- 000.00 for the purpose of building such bridge." . . .. At a later date the Lancaster County Commissioners passed a similar resolution. During the summer months the committees of the Lancaster Automobile Club and the

faithfulness. The excellence of the mason work and the great strength of the lattice work in the superstruc- ture, extort the admiration of all who have seen the one or had an opportunity of judging the other. "There is another bridge over the Little Conestoga, nearly completed, on the plan of Burr's bridges

dates, names of Commissioners and builders, are walled into all these bridges. The bridges across the Conestoga, down the stream, in their successive order, each have their important bearings on the developments of their re- spective communities. �The first bridge is on the State Highway, the most