Description: It is believed that sometime during the winter of 1909-10, local photographer Lucy Sampson set her tripoded camera on the floor in the middle of the Knox covered bridge facing north. Valley Creek, backed up by a large dam, extended a backwater from near the Schuylkill River to the Knox cover bridge, originally built in 1851. To the right of the Creek is Valley Forge Road (today’s Route 252 at the foot of Mount Joy). Though the water level, a good mile back from what was then called Phoenixville Pike (now Route 23), is much higher than one would see in recent times, the view is little changed from today. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
