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(KDKA) — Have you ever wondered what's at the bottom of a lake ... name of the bridge is Great Crossings Bridge," said Jacob Miller, a curator with the Historical Society of Somerset County.
and gesturing toward all three of the bridge's exposed arches. The Youghiogheny River Lake occupies parts of Addison Township, Somerset County, as well as Fayette County and western Maryland.
SOMERSET COUNTY ... in the 1940s when the Youghiogheny River Lake was built. One of the biggest remnants of that town is the Great Crossings Bridge. This is what it once looked like.
She walked the main street of Somerfield and its 206-year-old Great Crossings Bridge, landmarks that are normally about 50 feet underwater at Youghiogheny River Lake in southwestern Somerset County.
The 1818 Great Crossings Bridge exposed last fall during an extended drought is back under water at the Youghiogheny River Lake in Somerset County. The historic structure dropped out of sight once ...
The 16-mile-long Youghiogheny River Lake in Pennsylvania ... the Great Crossings Bridge was built over the Youghiogheny River in 1818. It linked Fayette and Somerset counties until the 1940s ...
BACK TO SOMERSET COUNTY TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK. INTEREST IN THE UNEARTHED GREAT CROSSINGS BRIDGE CONTINUES TO GROW HERE ALONG THE BANKS OF THE YORK RIVER. LAKE, BUT NOW THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS ...
The 200-year-old bridge, an 1818 structure of cut sandstone, typically lies 50 feet beneath the surface of the Youghiogheny River Lake ... to connect Fayette and Somerset counties, which ...