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Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge 01-17-01x
Description
This bridge is listed by the National Park Service as being built ca. 1860, but locals believe it was built ca. 1820. The sign on the bridge states that it was built in 1820.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Buzzard Roost Creek on Co Rd 15
- Location
- Cherokee, Colbert County, Alabama
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- History
- Built ca 1860; destroyed by fire July 15, 1972
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 94.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.75332, -88.02092 (decimal degrees)
34°45'12" N, 88°01'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/406558/3846162 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Margerum
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 01-178-01x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 49418 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge
It would be more of a coincidence if there weren't so many other wooden bridges in Alabama that have been burned down. I still thought it was weird though to have that number on a bridge out in the boondocks of the bible belt.
Buzzard Roost Covered Bridge
I find it quite ironic that a bridge that has 666 (see plaque in pics one and two) as an identification number gets destroyed by fire. Sounds quite Biblical!
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This is a photo of my family at Buzzard Roost Bridge circa 1969. I'm the smallest one. The picture was taken by my father Rick Hall, who was a legendary record producer at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.