The Old Bridges Of Stone Creek

Did you know? Myer Souders has shared photographs of three old covered bridges that, he says, crossed Standing Stone Creek. He sent them in reply to a post about St. Mary's Bridge on Route 522 in Cromwell Township, which the 1991 inventory of Huntingdon County's historic engineering and industrial sites called the only covered bridge remaining in Huntingdon County.

This one, he says, is the old Cornpropst Mills bridge. In 1876 Cornpropst's Mill, on Standing Stone Creek, was one of three post offices in Barree Township. The 1883 county history says the mill there, a little more than a mile above the Oneida Township line, was widely known as the Couch mill until it became the property of Henry Cornpropst, and with that came a change of name. In November 1880 the court divided Barree Township and named its southeast part Miller, and the 1883 history calls Cornpropst's Mill the only post office and place of business in the new township.

He also shared what he identifies as the old Forge bridge at Jacksons Corner, and McDivett's bridge, which he says stood about five miles north of Huntingdon at the Lions park and was built in 1866. He says McDivett's was another family that built canal boats, in the area where the Lions barn is on Cold Springs Road. The 1883 county history places a McDivitt family homestead in Oneida Township, and an 1885 geological report's chapter on Oneida Township gives McDivitt's as the place where Murray's Run joins Stone Creek.

Checked 2026-10-30 · County histories and primary sources, read in full

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