Scarborough Bridge
Camden County, Cherry Hill. Built 1959, 55 ft. long. Also called the "Kissing Bridge," a developer's marketing landmark over the Cooper River where 101 couples kissed on its opening day.
Scarborough Bridge, New Jersey's second and only non-historic covered bridge, crosses the north branch of the Cooper River in the Barclay Farm neighborhood of Cherry Hill. It was designed by architect Malcolm Wells and built by developer Robert "Bob" Scarborough, who needed a crossing to connect two parcels of the neighborhood he was developing and saw an opportunity to build something more memorable than an ordinary span. The Town truss bridge opened to traffic on February 14, 1959 — Valentine's Day — and 101 couples reportedly shared a kiss beneath it that day, earning it the enduring nickname "the Kissing Bridge," or sometimes "the Friendship Bridge."
At 55 feet long, the bridge carries two lanes of Covered Bridge Road along with sidewalks for pedestrians and cyclists, updated in 1993 to keep pace with the growing Cherry Hill community around it. Decades after its debut, it remains a genuine local landmark and a rare example of a covered bridge built purely as a marketing flourish for a suburban housing development — one that ended up outliving the marketing pitch and becoming a cherished piece of Cherry Hill's identity in its own right.
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