1831 Cholera, and the wooden bridgeCholera a drevený most

In 1831 the cholera epidemic reached Hanušovce, and with it the peasant rising that swept Zemplín and Šariš that summer — a revolt driven as much by rumour as by hunger, since villagers were convinced the wells were being poisoned by the very authorities who were in fact trying to disinfect them. In the same generation the town acquired the largest single structure it had ever had: a wooden bridge about ninety metres long across the Topľa, a real piece of carpentry engineering, built in the first third of the nineteenth century. It stood for more than a hundred years, and was destroyed at the end of the Second World War.V roku 1831 zasiahla Hanušovce cholerová epidémia a s ňou aj roľnícke povstanie, ktoré v to leto prešlo Zemplínom a Šarišom — vzbura poháňaná chýrmi rovnako ako hladom, lebo dedinčania boli presvedčení, že studne im otravuje práve tá vrchnosť, ktorá ich v skutočnosti dezinfikovala. V tej istej generácii dostalo mesto najväčšiu stavbu, akú kedy malo: drevený most cez Topľu, dlhý asi deväťdesiat metrov, skutočné tesárske majstrovstvo, postavený v prvej tretine 19. storočia. Stál viac ako sto rokov a zničili ho na konci druhej svetovej vojny.