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49418
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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)
Update Log
- August 24, 2011: Added by Ben Tate
Sources
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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.