History & local legend
Banks Covered Bridge spans Neshannock Creek between Volant and New Wilmington in Lawrence County. Built in 1889, the wooden bridge remains a familiar landmark on Covered Bridge Road, where both cars and horse-drawn buggies have traveled.
A local story collected by the Shadowlands concerns an Amish girl seen walking along the road at night. In the legend, she was traveling with her family in a buggy during the nineteenth century when an accident threw her into the creek and she drowned.
Her ghost is said to search the road for the family from whom she was separated.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Volant / Covered Bridge Road, girl, family buggy, drowning and nighttime search
- Wilmington Township, bridge construction year, creek, present horse-drawn traffic, and street address
- National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, inventory PA/38-37-02, coordinates and views
- OpenStreetMap, actual mapped bridge centerline
