Foxcatcher Farm Covered Bridge


In 1860, when the bridge was built it was originally named Strahorn’s Mill Bridge, named for Jonathan Strahorn’s Mill. It later was renamed Foxcatcher Farm Covered Bridge after William DuPont Jr's Foxcatcher Farm Estates. The burr truss construction over the Big Elk Creek cost around $1,165. Standing 80' long the bridge was rehabilitated in 1992, for the sum of $152,000. In 1994, Maryland made it a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. 

The lower sideboards were damaged by Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

1 of 2 Covered Bridges left in Cecil County.


 

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