National Register Listing

Bitzer's Mill Covered Bridge

a.k.a. Eberly's Covered Bridge

SE of Ephrata on LR 36122, West Earl Township, Ephrata, PA
Local significance of the structure:
Engineering; Transportation

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

Pennsylvania was home to the first commercially drilled oil well in the world, which was drilled in 1859 near Titusville.