Found a couple of newspaper articles about the bridge: Gettysburg Times, October 15, 1980 A 19th century covered bridge in Adams County which General Robert E. Lee's troops crossed in retreat after the Battle of Gettysburg is included with 16 other similar spans as an entry on the National Register of Historic Places, according to George R. Dowdell of the Pa. Historical and Museum Commission. Sauck's Covered Bridge, spanning Marsh Creek in the Gettysburg National Military Park, and the other spans have been placed on the register as the Covered Bridges of Adam, Cumberland and Perry Counties Thematic Resource, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission announced today. Sauck's Bridge, also known as Sach's Bridge, is one of only a few town truss covered spans extant and the only one in its area of the state. Its unusual open sides are unique in the state. Built circa 1854 and the oldest structure in the thematic group, the span formerly served the Water Works Rd., but is now closed to traffic. It is 15 ft. 4 ins. wide and 100 feet long. Union troops also used the span at the start of the Battle of Gettysburg fought July 1-3, 1863. While it had earlier register status from being a part of the battlefield area, the span was additionally included as a thematic resource. Note: Remainder of article talks about other bridges. -------------- Gettysburg Times, November 18, 1992 Editor, Gettysburg Times: The article on the proposed "passive park" near the historic Sauck's (sic) or Sock's (sic) bridge drew my particular attention. I think the time has come--indeed it is long past--when the name of this bridge and piece of land should be recognized. Since the JOHN SACHS who owned the land was an uncle of my mother, I am in a position to know positively that the tract and the bridge should be known as Sachs Bridge. Sachs, a family name meaning "resident of Saxony", is an old and honored German surname. It is SACHS with two S's; the name is immortalized in Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger" in the character of Hans Sachs. Possibly the misspellings that you use in your article are the result of a desparate, long-standing a futile struggle of our family to have the name pronounced correctly. The name is pronounced SOX, not SACKS. It would be a source of great joy to our family if people who don't know how to pronounce the name would stop insisting that they know better than we do how our honored family name should be pronounced and spelled. Elizabeth A. Sheffer Shepherdstown, W. Va. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt Sanders" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:36 PM Subject: [PAADAMS] FW: looking for information > I'm not familiar with this... can someone help her? > Curt Sanders > > ---------- > From: Julie Daniels <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:16:02 -0800 > To: [email protected] > Subject: looking for information > > Hi there, > > I am trying to find information on the Sauck Covered bridge in Adams County > PA. > My boyfriend (a Sauck) recently told me that this bridge was named after a > distant relative > of his but he has no other information than that about the bridge or the > man it was named after. > He did say the ancestor had something to do with the civil war. > > Can you tell me if there are any books that would have some information > regarding this man > that I might be able to purchase or get reprints of? > > Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > Many thanks, > > Julie Daniels > > > > > ==== PAADAMS Mailing List ==== > Adams Co. PA GenWeb URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paadams/adams.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >