The overseers of the roads, one of whom was mill owner David Lee, were appointed in 1784. They provided a ford on this site south of the mill so that the towns of Franklinville, Jerusalem, and Jericho were connected, and that grain and flour might be shipped to the port town of Joppa. Although Jericho Road was officially laid out by the county in 1809, the 1860 land plat of the Lee property still shows the site as being a ford in that year. The present covered bridge was built a few years later.

Although the Jerusalem Road was the major turnpike route (Baltimore and Jerusalem Turnpike, authorized in 1791 and built through Kingsville in 1815), the ford and later the bridge on Jericho Road provided an alternative crossing of the Little Gunpowder Falls, since the Turnpike ford was often subject to closure due to high waters.

Will be going back later this week for more pixs!