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Jug Bridge (site)
Dr. Baxter Road
Frederick, MD 21701The Jug Bridge was built over the Monacacy River in 1808 at a location a few miles east of Frederick, Maryland. The bridge consisted of two 65-foot spans. The bridge's name derived from a stone bottle that was situated at the northeastern end of the bridge. There was a legend that an Irish mason accidentally sealed a jug of whiskey inside the stone bottle. The stone bottle now sits in a roadside park west of the river.
The bridge collapsed suddenly on March 3, 1942, creating a nightmarish detour for through traffic. A replacement bridge was opened just south of the jug bridge.
With the new alignment across the Monacacy River, the stone bottle was dismantled and moved to an interpretive park high on the western bank of river valley. By the way, the bottle was empty - there was no jug of whiskey.
If you look around the area, you will see some evidence of the old bridge: Jug Bridge Seafood and Jug Bridge Hill Road are nearby.
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Jug Bridge, 1933. Photo by A. S. Burns. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Jug Bridge, looking east, ca. 1934. Photo by C. E. Peterson. Courtesy of the Library oc Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Jug Bridge, looking east, 1936. Photo by E.H. Pickering. Courtesy of the Library oc Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Jug Bridge, 1933. Photo by A. S. Burns. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Jug Bridge, 1933. Photo by A. S. Burns. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Stone jug from the Jug Bridge, 1933. Photo by A. S. Burns. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Stone jug from the Jug Bridge, 1933. Photo by A. S. Burns. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Stone bottle from the old Jug Bridge as it appears today. Photo by Mr. T in DC/Flickr.  Some rights reserved.
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