The historic Glendale Road Bridge
The old Glendale Road Bridge was a direct response to the making of Deep Creek Lake. Built in 1924, the two-span steel bridge carried a local road across the valley as it became a reservoir.
The Historic American Engineering Record identifies its design as a Pennsylvania, or Petit, through truss. McClintic-Marshall fabricated the bridge for the hydroelectric project in cooperation with local officials. Its riveted geometry became a recognizable feature of the lake.
The bridge was documented in 1992, before its later demolition. The archival photograph below preserves that earlier crossing, not the bridge visitors see today. It captures an everyday piece of infrastructure that quietly connected the lake’s communities for decades.
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Sources used for this page. Historical interpretation is separate from the current menu.
- Library of Congress · Glendale Road Bridge, HAER MD-88
Federal engineering record: 1924 construction, steel trusses and archive photographs.
- Historic American Engineering Record · Glendale Road Bridge report
Historical report, including the lake’s early recreation and the 1937 yacht club.
