02/20/09

Photo Gallery: Stone Mountain's Covered Bridge

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"Covered bridges" or "lattice bridges" were common throughout the Eastern U.S. during the nineteenth century. This bridge formerly spanning the North Fork of the Oconee River in the city of Athens, Ga., connecting College Avenue and Hobson Avenue.

Clark County Ordinary S.M. Herrington let a building contract 26 March, 1891, for $2,470, to W.W. King. It cost $18,000 to move the bridge from Athens, 60 miles, to this point. Bridges like this were refuge for travelers during storms, courting couples, and robbers who hid themselves on the overhead timbers and dropped down on the unsuspecting victim.