Bridge - Lehmans

Click On Image To Enlarge The Port Royal end of the bridge as it appeared in the Spring of 2009. Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 2009

This bridge has been a Port Royal landmark for a long time. It sits at the end of Milford Street and crosses Licking Creek.

The bridge is privately owned and serves the farm that sits across Licking Creek from Port Royal. This farm was deeded to the Wilson family by William Penn. The bridge is known by several names: McCullochs Bridge, Mayers Bridge and Lehmans Bridge.

The first structure was toppled by the flood that was caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and was rebuilt by the Lehman family.

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	Contributed by donholton on 3/25/10 - Image Year: 2000 Lehman's Bridge Sign Erected about 1858 Lehman's Bridge Licking Creek Formerly McCulloch's Bridge and Mayer's Bridge Toppled by "Agnes " Storm - June 1972 Rebuilt in 1973 from rescued original timbers Originally of double arch construction. Registered as a Pennsylvania and Natuioal Historical Site Privately owned since 1969 by Elkanah (Ken) and Lucy B. Lehman Rebuilt by Manbeck Construction Company
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 3/22/10 - Image Year: 1950 Lehman's Bridge during the flood of November 1950.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 12/29/10 - Image Year: 1950 LOOKING TOWARD PORT ROYAL (Photo submitted by D L Kepner)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1952 The bridge as it appeared during a winter snow. The age of the cars would suggest that the picture was taken in the early 1950s. (The strange configuration of the vehicles suggests that there may have been a collision and some bystander took a picture.)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1965 The bridge as it appeared before it was destroyed in the flood of June 1972.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1974 The Port Royal side of the bridge following reconstruction in 1974.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1974 The Port Royal side of the bridge following reconstruction in 1974.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1974 The Lehman side of the bridge following reconstruction in 1974.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1974 The Lehman side of the bridge following reconstruction in 1974.
	Contributed by rkohler on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1974 The Lehman side of the bridge following reconstruction in 1974.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1975 This picture shows the bridge soon after it had been rebuilt following the flood of 1972. The view is from the western side of the creek.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 8/29/13 - Image Year: 1960 Artist Harrison Frerichs oil painting of the bridge. Frerichs was the chairman of the Art Department for the New York City Public Schools. He built a stone cottage between Port Royal and Mifflin on Route 3011. It was at this location where he often spent his summer vacations. He was born in New York Aug 26, 1888 and eventually retired to South Pasadena, Florida where he died at the age of 87 on June 14, 1976.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/15/13 - Image Year: 2012 Drawing of the bridge by unknown artist.