- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of covered bridge, Fort Gaines, Clay County, Georgia, ca. 1900]
- Date of Original:
- 1900
- Subject:
- Architecture--Georgia--Fort Gaines
Transportation--Georgia--Fort Gaines
Covered bridges--Georgia--Fort Gaines - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clay County, Fort Gaines, 31.60924, -85.04933
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Fort Gaines, ca. 1900. Covered bridge over the Chattahoochee River, which replaced the first bridge that washed away ca. 1850. In the 1860s Bonner and Walden received the contract to build a new bridge. In Aug. 1868 while the bridge was still under construction, part of it was destroyed by floods. Bonner and Walden abandoned the project and were replaced by Horace King, a black man who was quite well-known as a bridge builder. After a March 1875 flood damaged part of the bridge, it was repaired by a builder named MacKenzie. After floods of March 1888 the bridge was rebuilt again. The builder may have been the son of Horace King. The wooden piers were replaced by brick ones and the bridge was a covered one. It was covered by a shingle roof. Small windows were cut in the sides at intervals to let in light. This bridge was destroyed by floods in 1926 shortly after its replacement, a modern steel bridge, had been opened to the public.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_cly005
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:cly005
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
