Fisher's Lane Bridge is a historic stone

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that carries Fisher's Lane west of Ramona Avenue across Tacony Creek in Tacony Creek Park in

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. The filled-spandrel stone arch bridge has a single span of and is wide. It is currently open to traffic. Though claimed by some to have been re-built in 1796,Final Stone Arch Bridge Management Plan, Appendix F: Philadelphia County/City Bridge Inventory, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Design, Environmental Quality Division, April 2008
a still-legible cornerstone in the bridge masonry shows the year 1759.

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