Built by J. S. Fleming, this is one of four Howe truss bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. With its trapezoidal shape, vertical siding, and narrow windows along the eaves, it is similar to the three Town truss, covered bridges in the county, but a Howe truss system was favored nationally by railroad engineers from 1842 to the 1880s. The Howe truss added iron rods
Lu Donnelly et al., "Kintersburg Bridge", [Dixonville, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-IN8.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 205-206.
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