The Loys Station Covered Bridge is a multiple king post wooden covered bridge near

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. The bridge was burned by an

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ist in 1991 and rebuilt using surviving framing. The original bridge spanned 90 feet in one span, but has since been modified with a pier at the middle of the span. The bridge crosses Owen's Creek and is surrounded by a park.

History

Loys Station Covered Bridge was originally built in 1848. Between 1929 and 1930 the bridge was reinforced with a concrete pier and steel beams. The bridge gets its name from a Western Maryland Railroad station that stopped nearby the bridge in

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. In 1978 the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1991 the bridge was burned down by an arsonist who was trying to fraudulently collect insurance money. The bridge took three years and $300,000 to rebuild and was rebuilt to match the bridge as it was in 1930 after having been reinforced. Most of the cost of reconstructing the bridge was covered by insurance. On 4 July 1994 the bridge officially reopened for the public. In October 2013 the bridge was damaged twice by vehicles, but quickly repaired both times. Loys Station covered bridge 13532v

Loys Station Field Condition in the 1980s

Loys Station Field Condition in the 1980s (2)

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*, including photo in 1997, at Maryland Historical Trust Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Wooden bridges in Maryland Bridges in Frederick County, Maryland Road bridges in Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland Covered bridges in the United States destroyed by arson {{Maryland-bridge-struct-stub