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Loy's Station - 1848
The 1848 Loys Station Covered Bridge near Thurmont, Frederick County, Maryland, is a multiple king post wooden covered bridge. The bridge was burned by an arsonist in 1991 who was trying to fraudulently collect insurance money and rebuild using surviving framing. The bridge took three years and $300,000 to rebuild and was rebuilt to match the bridge as it was in 1930 after having been reinforced. Most of the cost of reconstructing the bridge was covered by insurance. On 4 July 1994, the bridge officially reopened for the public. The original bridge spanned 90 feet in one span but has since been modified with a pier at the middle of the span. The bridge crosses Owen's Creek and is surrounded by a park.
Between 1929 and 1930 the bridge was reinforced with a concrete pier and steel beams. The bridge gets its name from a Western Maryland Railroad station that stopped near the bridge in Loys. In October 2013 the bridge was damaged twice by vehicles, but quickly repaired both times.
Although it has been structurally modified and rebuilt, the bridge's original timbers remain throughout the 90-foot-long structure crossing Owens Creek.
Length of largest span: 38.1 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.8 ft.
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Located at: N39 36.523 W77 21.084 - WGCB #20-10-03#2
Photographed in August of 2018