Jericho Covered Bridge
Baltimore/Harford County, near Kingsville. Built 1865, 88 ft. long. A Burr truss bridge linking two counties, with a long-running reputation as Maryland's most haunted crossing.
Jericho Covered Bridge was built in 1865 across the Little Gunpowder Falls, connecting the mill towns of Franklinville and Jerusalem Mill and, in the process, linking Baltimore and Harford counties, which still jointly own the structure today. It runs 88 feet on a Burr truss and just under 15 feet wide, renovated in 1937 and again in 1982 and 2015 to keep the timber sound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The bridge's real local fame, though, has less to do with its engineering than its reputation. Jericho is widely considered Maryland's most haunted covered bridge, with generations of ghost stories attached to the crossing: a woman in old-fashioned dress said to walk the span, a girl carrying flowers, a figure with a badly burned face, even reports of car engines mysteriously stalling mid-crossing on quiet nights. One persistent version of the legend claims the bridge is haunted by the ghosts of enslaved people, though the story doesn't hold up historically since the bridge wasn't built until after the Civil War ended. True or not, the tales have made Jericho a fixture on regional ghost tours and a magnet for late-night visitors hoping to see something unexplained.
