Bennies Hill Road Bridge, Historic road bridge in Middletown, Maryland.
The Bennies Hill Road Bridge is a road bridge in Middletown, Maryland that crosses Catoctin Creek using a steel bowstring arch design from the late 1800s. The curved arch beneath the roadway is characteristic of the structural methods engineers used during that period.
The King Bridge Company built this iron structure in 1889 to serve the Frederick County community as a key transportation link. It was constructed during an era when metal bridges were being installed across American rural areas to improve regional connectivity.
The bridge represents a period of American industrial growth when iron bridges revolutionized transportation infrastructure across rural communities.
The bridge sits south of Middletown and is accessible by local roads that still handle regular traffic from the area. Visitors should expect the hilly terrain typical of this part of Maryland, with farmland and forest surrounding the crossing.
This bridge is among the few remaining steel bowstring arch spans in Maryland still sitting in their original locations. Such structures were uncommon to build, and it is even rarer for them to stay in place for more than a century without major relocation.
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