Rating:
47714
{55}%
2 votes
Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge 10-49-02
Photos
Photo taken by James McCray
Enlarge
BH Photo #233367
Description
Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge is the southernmost authentic covered bridge in the United States.
Facts
- Overview
- Queenpost through truss bridge over Coheelee Creek on Old River Road (County Road 80)
- Location
- Early County, Georgia
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1891
- Builder
- - John William Baughman
- Design
- Queenpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 96.0 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1976
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.30637, -85.07869 (decimal degrees)
31°18'23" N, 85°04'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/682846/3465150 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Columbia
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 76000617 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 47714 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 15, 2012: New photos from James McCray
- January 15, 2011: Added by James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
Roof damaged Hurricane Michael but still nice. Gated, Closed to foot traffic .
https://youtu.be/e0n0RPlPDOw