This turntable bridge was built in 1852 and replaced in 1891. It was moved 3 miles downstream and served as a crossing for the community of Ruth until 1992. The bridge was in place when Breaux Bridge was incorporated on March 14, 1859. In April 1863, Confederate forces under General Richard Taylor retreated up Bayou Teche with a detachment of General Banks's Union soldiers in pursuit. Major Power Gallway, commanding some New York infantry troops, left the main column on the afternoon of the 17th while marching through St. Martinville with his regiment and proceeded by road along Bayou Teche close to Breaux Bridge. Within 5 miles of the bridge, 10 of his mounted men encountered the enemy's pickets, drove them in, and took 2 prisoners and 3 horses. Shortly afterward he saw heavy smoke above the town of Breaux Bridge and, on reaching the town, found the bridge from Main Street across Bayou Teche in flames. He was informed that the steamboats Darby, Louise, Blue Hammock, and Uncle Tom had passed up the bayou the day before carrying valuable stores belonging to the enemy, that the enemy had maintained a force of 500 cavalry in the neighborhood of Breaux Bridge until within an hour of his arrival, and that the poor of the surrounding country were suffering greatly.