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Germantown Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Montgomery County, Ohio

Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, Germantown (Montgomery County, Ohio) cropped and exposure adjusted Public domainPublic doma
Germantown Covered Bridge, Center Street spanning Little Twin Creek, Germantown (Montgomery County, Ohio) cropped and exposure adjusted Public domainPublic doma · Joseph Elliott, Photographer / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Germantown Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Montgomery County, Ohio. Ohio has 147 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow, 2 of them in Montgomery County.

It crosses Twin Creek.

Status check, 2026-11: Believed to be the only surviving inverted-bowstring truss covered bridge. It was moved to East Center St in 1911, rebuilt after a 1981 crash, and is now open only to people on foot. Sources give the build year as 1865 or 1870 and the length as 100 or 105 ft. Germantown Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 39.6262° N, 84.3650° W.

Key facts

CrossesTwin Creek
National RegisterListed
Coordinates39.62623, -84.36497

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Questions

Where is Germantown Covered Bridge?

Germantown Covered Bridge is in Montgomery County, Ohio, at 39.6262, -84.3650.

How many covered bridges are in Montgomery County?

Montgomery County, Ohio has 2 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.