Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge

Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge
	Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	N of Woodbury on Covered Bridge Road, Woodbury, Georgia
Coordinates	33°02′18″N 84°33′12″W / 33.03833°N 84.55333°WCoordinates: 33°02′18″N 84°33′12″W / 33.03833°N 84.55333°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	c.1840
Built by	King, Horace
Architectural style	Town Truss Covered Bridge
NRHP reference No.	73000632
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1973

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.^[1] 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.^[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 (0.38 m × 0.38 m) in dimension. It is held together by approximately 2500 pegs.^[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]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c William R. Mitchell, 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[]

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)

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[nrhpdoc-2] William R. Mitchell, 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

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