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COUNTY | WORLD GUIDE # | CROSSES | TRUSS | SPANS | LENGTH | BUILT | GONE |
Harford | MD-12-29x | Grays Run | Unk | 1 | 30' | c1828 | Unk |
Grays Run Covered Bridge crossed Grays Run on Old Post Road just north of Church Creek (an extension above Bush River). The Independent Citizen, on September 1, 1828 advertised for bridge builders to submit proposals to the Levy Court of Harford County for constructing a bridge "over Gray's Run, on the Post Road leading from Baltimore to Havre-de-Grace." The bridge was "to be built of wood, and 30 feet in the clear; the abutments of stone, to be laid with lime and sand; roofed and weather-boarded."¹
¹Jack L. Shagena, Jr., Henry C. Peden, Jr., Timber Bridges - Covered and Uncovered: Harford County's Rural Heritage. (Privately printed by the authors; Bel Air, MD, March, 2010), p. 63; Independent Citizen, September 11, 1828.