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Nectar Covered Bridge 01-05-04x

Blount County, Alabama

Photos 

Photo taken by Ben Tate in January 2011

BH Photo #210510

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost covered bridge over Locust Fork River on Covered Bridge Road
Location
Nectar, Blount County, Alabama
Status
Destroyed by fire
History
Built 1932; Destroyed by arson 1993
Builder
- Zelmer & Forrest Tidwell
Design
Covered Town lattice through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 119.1 ft.
Total length: 367.1 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.95638, -86.62635   (decimal degrees)
33°57'23" N, 86°37'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/534523/3757382 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Nectar
Inventory numbers
WGCB 01-05-04x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 49415 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Alabama (971)
Blount County, Alabama (29)
Built 1932 (963)
Built during 1930s (11,749)
Covered (1,648)
Destroyed by fire (195)
Lattice through truss (554)
Lattice truss (586)
Lost (24,738)
Lost 1993 (460)
Lost during 1990s (3,984)
 NR-listed (2,960)
Nectar, Alabama (1)
Owned by county (20,783)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,395)
Structurally deficient (14,198)
Sufficiency rating zero (221)
Through truss (15,065)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,229)
Town lattice truss (260)
Truss (32,788)
Zelmer & Forrest Tidwell (4)

Update Log 

  • August 24, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builders
  • August 24, 2011: Added by Ben Tate

Sources 

  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Alabama Covered Bridges - pictures before and after bridge destruction
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Wikipedia - Wikipedia entry
  • Flickr - pic 1 - taken 1978
  • Flickr - pic 2 - taken 1982
  • Flickr - pic 3 - taken 1987
  • Flickr - pic 4 - taken 1989
  • Flickr - pic 5 - Taken 1993 - The smoldering ruins right after it was burned.
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Comments 

Nectar Covered Bridge
Posted August 24, 2011, by Ben Tate

I've posted a bunch of links to photos of the bridge before it was burned down and one photo of the bridge where the ruins are still smoking. Maybe this will hold us over until Tony Dillon finds those pictures he took long ago.