- Collection:
- Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
- Title:
- Red Oak Creek Bridge, Spanning (Big) Red Oak Creek, Huel Brown Road (Covered Bridge Road), Woodbury, Meriwether County, GA
- Creator:
- Historic American Engineering Record
- Contributor to Resource:
- King, Horace,
Town, Ithiel,
Godwin, John,
King, Washington W,
King, Marshall,
King, Ernest,
King, George,
King, John T,
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
Bennett, Lola, historian - Date of Original:
- 1933/9999
- Subject:
- Woodbury (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
covered bridges
transportation
African Americans
Town lattice trusses
vehicular bridges - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Woodbury, 32.98374, -84.5827
- Medium:
- photographs
field notes - Type:
- Still Image
Text - Description:
- Photo(s): 12 | Color Transparencies: 3 | Data Page(s): 10 | Photo Caption Page(s): 2
Significance: The Red Oak Creek Bridge is one of sixteen surviving covered bridges in Georgia and may have been built by prominent bridge builder and former slave Horace King, or one of his sons. The bridge is notable for its long approach span, which is typical of southern bridge construction.
Survey number: HAER GA-138
Building/structure dates: ca. 1840?? Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000632 - Local Identifier:
- HAER GA-138
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/ga0911/
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Original Collection:
- Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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