if there were no winter in our year!"
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
~ 1823-1911
from "April Days"
~ 1861
The historic Geiger's Covered Bridge crosses the frosted waters
of the Jordan Creek, painting a scene of quiet beauty just before a winter sunset.
Geiger’s Covered Bridge is an historic wooden covered
bridge in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania. It is a 112-foot-long Burr
Truss bridge, constructed in 1860. It has vertical plank siding and an entry
portal of stepped square planks. It crosses the Jordan Creek and was listed on
the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It can be accessed from The
Covered Bridge Trail of the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
