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General Information

Other name(s): Imlac Bridge
Beginning of works: 1840s
Status: in use

Project Type

Awards and Distinctions

Location

Location: , ,
Crosses:
  • Red Oak Creek
Coordinates: 33° 2' 18.78" N    84° 33' 7.81" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

total length 76.96 m

Materials

truss wood

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge, located north of Woodbury, Georgia (historically on Huel Brown Rd.) now on Covered Bridge Road (, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Architect: King, Horace

It is a Town truss covered bridge and has also been known as Big Red Oak Creek Bridge.

It was probably built by Horace King, a slave, in about 1840.

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 (0.38 m × 0.38 m) in dimension. It is held together by approximately 2500 pegs.

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."

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge" and modified on 15 November 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • Structure-ID
    20007840
  • Published on:
    14/01/2003
  • Last updated on:
    10/11/2021
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