Images and history of Maryland's Covered Bridges

Over the past two centuries, more than 120 Covered Bridges spanned the rivers of Maryland.  Currently, only six authentic covered bridges remain.  

The longest covered bridge in Maryland was Theodore Burr's Rock Run Bridge, a 4,170-foot, 18-span bridge crossing the Susquehanna River.  One of the shortest was the 29 feet 6 inches Reynolds Covered Bridge over Little Northeast Creek, about 1/4 mile south of Blueball in Cecil County. Only seventeen historic covered bridges remained by 1937, which dwindled to eleven in 1947. The state continued to lose bridges until only six remained in 1989.  These six authentic bridges are all Kingpost truss bridges. One is a single Kingpost truss, one is a multiple Kingpost truss, and four are multiple Kingpost trusses with Burr arches.

Maryland's Bridges photographed in August of 2018.