A bridge at Goose Creek was in use by 1680, built from split logs laid with the flat sides up and covered by sand or clay, with a raised road at either end. Traffic increased significantly after St. James, Goose Creek Church was built 200 yds. S in 1714-19, and by the 1750s the bridge had to be replaced every few years. In 1780 British troops occupying The Oaks Plantation nearby guarded the bridge as a strategic point on the road to and from Charleston. Shortly after the Revolution, the bridge was torn down and replaced by a larger covered one. A later covered bridge, built in 1851, was 200 ft. long, stood on brick piers, and had a plank floor and cypress shingle roof. Confederates burned it in 1865 while attempting to delay Federals in the area. Another bridge built some years after the Civil War was uncovered and had a simple railing, and by 1925 a new U.S. Highway 52 included a bridge upstream and W. of this crossing.