The 1891 Lower Humbert Covered Bridge, or the Faidley Covered Bridge, is a 126-foot-6-inch (38.56 m) Burr Arch truss covered bridge that crosses Laurel Hill Creek in Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. This double-span bridge is the westernmost and southernmost historic covered bridge in the county and is one of its ten remaining covered bridges.

At 12 feet 4 inches wide, the Lower Humbert Bridge was built in 1891 and rebuilt in 1991, adding two steel beams and extensive reinforcement work done on the abutments. It was during the rehabilitation that a concrete pier, encased in stone, was added near the bridge’s midway point. A homemade explosive device caused minor damage to the bridge's deck in January of 2006; however, the bridge is still open to vehicular traffic. 

Approximately one mile upstream from the Humbert Covered Bridge crossing, there once existed another bridge known as the Upper Humbert Covered Bridge. Little has been recorded about this bridge other than that it had a king-post design, and pre-1950, three piers were added beneath it for support. In August 1969, the bridge was a victim of arson and was never replaced. 

An article dated October 26, 1950, “Stories Reveal Hauntings Down in Turkeyfoot Region,” was published in The Republic, a local newspaper. The article mentions a ghost that once haunted Humbert Road. According to the article, the ghost of a young girl once walked along Humbert Road. The figure had a distinctive appearance with no head or possibly a small, deformed head, depending upon the version of the story. The girl was an illegitimate child who had been abused by her father, who eventually killed her. After her death, she was buried along the Humbert Road and was known to haunt the location where her burial stone stood. Her ghost stopped appearing in the area when her stone was destroyed by a road crew doing construction there.

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Lower Humbert Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980.

Located at:  N39 50.407   W79 19.381      -      WGCB #38-56-12

Photographed in June of 2025

Photos by Millard Farmer