The bridge was named after the Harbison family that owned land around the Portland Mills area . It replaced the earlier 1847 Hargrave Covered Bridge that had been lost in the Great Flood of 1913 . This bridge would be lost though on December 22 , 1943 , when a truck wrecked and ruptured an oil pipeline . The oil that leaked from the pipeline saturated the bridge and ignited . The bridge burned down very quickly and was unable to be saved
Great Flood of 1913
Great Flood of 1913
Harbison Covered Bridge