Summary
The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge carries Covered Bridge Road (historically Huel Brown Road) across Red Oak Creek north of Woodbury, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
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| Location | North of Woodbury on Covered Bridge Road, Woodbury, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°02′18″N 84°33′12″W / 33.03833°N 84.55333°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1840 |
| Built by | Horace King |
| Architectural style | Covered Town lattice truss |
| NRHP reference No. | 73000632[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 7, 1973 |
The bridge is a covered Town lattice truss and has also been known as Big Red Oak Creek Bridge.
It was probably built by Horace King, a slave, in about 1840.[2]
The bridge's covered portion is 116 feet (35 m) long while its total span is 412 feet (126 m) long, which is the longest total span of any covered bridge in Georgia. Its long sills were sawn from heart pine and are 15 by 15 inches (38 cm × 38 cm) in dimension. It is held together by approximately 2,500 wooden pegs also known as trunnels.[2]
When listed in 1973, the bridge was still in use. It was thought to possibly be the oldest covered bridge in Georgia, and to be "an outstanding reminder of the age when there were over 250 covered bridges in Georgia."[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c Mitchell, William R. Jr. (1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge / Big Red Oak Creek Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved September 8, 2018. With accompanying photo from 1972
External links edit
- Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge, YouTube video from 2013 by Lighthouse Lady
- Flat Shoals-Flint River, Gay Georgia & Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge, YouTube video by drone from June 24, 2016 (bridge at 3:59 - 5:35)
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. GA-138, "Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Covered Bridge Road), Woodbury, Meriwether County, GA", 12 photos, 3 color transparencies, 9 data pages, 2 photo caption pages