St. Andrew’s Church Road (also Maryland Route 4 in places) runs through St. Mary’s County near Hollywood, California, and Leonardtown. A historic brick church stands on it. St. Andrew’s Church was built in 1766–1768 as the parish church for St. Andrew’s Parish, established in 1744. It is a rectangular Georgian structure with twin corner towers, designed by Richard Boulton, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. There is no named bridge on the road that carries a documented local ghost legend.
Searches of Maryland folklore collections, local newspapers, and paranormal listings turn up no specific haunting attached to a bridge on St. Andrew’s Church Road. The road has had ordinary traffic accidents, including multi-vehicle crashes near its intersection with Indian Bridge Road, but none of those incidents has produced a named ghost or a circulating story. Nearby Southern Maryland does have well-known bridge legends—Governor’s Bridge (Crybaby Bridge) near Bowie, the Jericho Covered Bridge on the Harford–Baltimore County line, and others—but those are separate sites with their own folklore. None of them is the St. Andrew’s Church Road crossing.
What is documented is an eighteenth-century parish church on a rural county road, a modern highway corridor that has seen routine crashes, and the absence of any printed or widely shared legend that names a ghost at a bridge on that road. The church is real. The road is real. Are the ghost stories real?
The haunted folklore tells the tales of two young ladies. One young lady is rumored to be a young slave girl whose slave quarters was located near the site of the bridge. She murdered her slave owner who was sexually abusing her and was chased down and murdered by an angry posse shortly after. She is said to jump out in front of cars and cause accidents.
The other spirit is said to be a young lady who was run over by a car speeding around the curve near the bridge. Ironically, the person who it her was her own husband who was rushing home after the end of World War II. She was said to have been holding his baby in her arms and when she was hit by the car she hurled the baby into the icy waters below the bridge. The baby was never found, but report say it can still be heard crying. The bridge is now known as “Cry Baby Creek”
Relevant links
St. Mary’s County government directions — confirmation that St. Andrew’s Church Road is Route 4This bridge is thirty-eight miles south of Baltimore on Highway 5, then to Highway 4 (St. Andrew’s Church Road) then east about three miles to the bridge. This bridge is said to be haunted by two young ladies.
Wikipedia: St. Andrew’s Church (Leonardtown, Maryland) — the 1766 church and its National Register listing
Maryland Historical Trust: St. Andrew’s Church (SM-66) — architectural description and significance