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Brookwood Covered Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Town lattice truss bridge over Hurricane Creek on Co Rd 59
- Location
- Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- History
- Built ca. 1850; destroyed by fire 1961
- Design
- Town lattice through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.22137, -87.31523 (decimal degrees)
33°13'17" N, 87°18'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/470626/3675873 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Coaling
- Inventory number
- BH 50724 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 27, 2011: Added by Ben Tate
You say that the bridge was destroyed by fire in 1961, but it was actually the morning of June 29, 1962. You can read it at the archives of The Tuscaloosa News for 6/29/92, hosted by Google:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=XUmZziu-z7kC&dat=1962...