The Hillsgrove Covered Bridge, a 186-foot (57 m) one-lane bridge with a roof and sides to protect the wooden structure from the weather, crosses Loyalsock Creek in Hillsgrove Township, Sullivan County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built by Sadler Rodgers around 1850 and serving as a landing site for lumber rafts between 1870 and 1890, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. Nineteenth-century regulations restricting speed, number of animals, and fire are still posted on the bridge. It gets its strength and rigidity from load- bearing Burr arches sandwiching multiple vertical king posts on each side. Restoration work was carried out in 1963, 1968, 2010, and, after serious flood damage (pictured), again in 2012. The bridge was still in use in 2015, and its average daily traffic was 54 vehicles in 2012, but the same year, the National Bridge Inventory found the bridge to be "Structurally Deficient" despite the restorations, with problematic railings and a 16.5 percent structural sufficiency rating. Only three of the 30 covered bridges that were in Sullivan County in 1890 remain in 2015: Forksville, Hillsgrove, and Sonestown. Pennsylvania had the first covered bridge in the United States, and has had more of them than any other state since the mid-19th century.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1297:

Francesco Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, led his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco

1889:

Statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine, the precursor to modern computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Hollerith

1920:

The steel strike of 1919, an attempt to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I, collapsed in complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_strike_of_1919

1964:

During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "War on Poverty". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty

2010:

Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations, killing three. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_national_football_team_attack

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

factitious: 1. Created by humans; artificial. 2. Counterfeit, fabricated. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/factitious

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The psychological basis for the use of nonviolent methods is the simple rule that like produces like, kindness provokes kindness, as surely as injustice produces resentment and evil. It is sometimes forgotten by those whose pacifism is a spurious, namby-pamby thing that if one Biblical statement of this rule is "Do good to them that hate you" (an exhortation presumably intended for the capitalist as well as for the laborer), another statement of the same rule is, "They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." You get from the universe what you give, with interest!   --A. J. Muste https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._J._Muste