Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge

Built in the 1840s by freed slave and noted bridge builder Horace King (1807-1885), Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge was constructed on the Town lattice design, with a web of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles and fastened at each intersection by approximately 2,500 wooden pegs, or trunnels. Although King is credited with building many covered bridges throughout west Georgia, this is his only surviving bridge of this design. At 391 feet, including the approaches, it is the oldest and longest wooden covered bridge in Georgia.

Georgia · United States