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Photo Gallery: Poole's Mill Covered Bridge
Marker
text:
Cherokee Chief George Welch constructed a grist mill here on
his extensive homeplace c. 1820. An uncovered bridge was later added. With
the 1838 removal of the Cherokees, the land was sold to Jacob Scudder. Dr.
M.L. Pool purchased it from Scudder's family in 1880. Abandoned in 1947, the
mill burned in 1959. The original bridge washed away in 1899 and was
replaced with the present 96-foot structure in 1901. Constructed in the Town
lattice design by Bud Gentry, the bridge's web of planks crisscrossing at
45- to 60-degree angles are fastened with wooden pegs, or trunnels, at each
intersection.
2000.7 Erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the Historical Society
of Forsyth County, Inc. 58-1 |