Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3

Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests.


 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 22, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 14:25, 4 June 2013‎ (UTC)



Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was a rubble masonry stone arch bridge over Plunketts Creek in Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built between 1840 and 1875, probably closer to 1840, when the road along the creek between the villages of Barbours and Proctor was constructed. It was named as the third bridge to cross the creek, and was 75 ft long. Its arch spanned 44 ft, and its deck was 18 ft wide. It carried a single lane of traffic, about 450 vehicles a day in 1996. The lumber, leather, and coal industries used the bridge and its road in the 19th century. These almost all left by the early 20th century, and the villages declined. The area the bridge served reverted mostly to second growth forest and it was used to access Pennsylvania State Game Lands and a state pheasant farm. Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was considered "significant as an intact example of mid-19th century stone arch bridge construction", and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 22, 1988. The bridge was demolished after severe flood damage in January 1996, and it was removed from the NRHP in 2002.
 * 4 points: date relevance (1), FA for more than one year (1), nothing relevant six months (2)


 * Support as nom Pumpkin Sky   talk  19:45, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support as the principal author and nominator at FAC. I would also be OK with a January 21st date (anniversary of the flood that led to its razing). PumpkinSky please provide the points for this nom. I also tweaked the blurb so it mentions that the bridge was demolished after flood damage. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 22:39, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, high quality and educational. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:51, 4 June 2013 (UTC)