Sandbeach, Pennsylvania
Sand Beach is an unincorporated community in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, nearby locating in the vicinity of the census-designated place of Hershey, Pennsylvania, the latitude is 40.309, and the longitude -76.668, its elevation is 361 feet. It lies at the point where the smaller Manada Creek joins the Swatara Creek.
It was founded as Manadaville. The village would later take its name after a post office in the area.The Sand Beach Covered Bridge or Church Ford Covered Bridge was a Burr arch truss covered bridge built in 1853 and again in 1906 that crossed Swatara Creek between Derry Township and South Hanover Township. The bridge, restored by Hershey Enterprises in 1964, burned the night of September 3, 1966.
