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An narrow old wood bridge, but once was an important channel connecting Maryland and West Virginia. Pay toll while driving a car on it, and free if you take a walk.
Well, it gets you from here to there. The bridge looks janky AF, but it works, and there is a certain charm to the whole thing. It is just one lane, which is all it needs to be, and yes, it charges a toll, which at time of writing was $1.50 for the car and then $.50 for each trailer axle. All cash, they hold a little tin cup out on a stick to take the money. Toll taker was very pleasant. Worth it if in the area just for the experience.
Love this privately owned toll bridge, especially putting your money in the cup when offered to you
We drove to Oldtown just to see the toll bridge. One of two privately owned toll bridges in the country. The lady was sweet and told us a little about it. She holds out a tin cup for your money.
I mapped out an alternate route from Pennsylvania to South Carolina avoiding the Interstates. I didn't know a thing about this bridge until I crested the rise and saw it. The trip was supposed to be an adventure and this certainly helped make it so. I will come this way again just to cross the bridge. Some of the other reviews here tell about the bridge's history. Be sure to keep reading.
Over 10 years ago I got bad directions to a customer and was told to come this way, I was in a loaded semi truck, 53 foot trailer. 60% full of carpet. Lol. One of my most memorable experiences in my trucking career. I made it, so did the bridge. I'm so glad we have google satellite view now.
This was just fun to see and ride my motorcycle across !
My grandfather, Melvin Carpenter, and his sons built this bridge. My mom (now 93) held the little tin cup on a stick out the window to collect tolls when she was a little girl. Pop Carpenter lived in Hancock and worked for a railroad tie company in Green Spring. He built the Old Town bridge to save time and mileage for timber trucks getting from Maryland to his plant in Green Spring. He had to get an act of congress passed to build a private bridge that crosses state lines. That congressional order still hangs on my parents’ wall.
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