Bible Covered Bridge
Greene County, Warrensburg. Built 1922-23, 45 ft. long. Also called the Chucky Bridge, commissioned by a descendant of the area's original 1783 settler family.
Bible Covered Bridge, painted a rich red and also known locally as the Chucky Bridge, spans Little Chucky Creek at a ford that once connected the Bible family farm to Warrensburg Road in Greene County. The name traces back to 1783, when the Christian Bible family settled the land on a North Carolina land grant and built a log house nearby, having to ford Little Chucky Creek every time they needed to reach a road to market their goods.
Nearly a century and a half later, E.A. Bible commissioned the covered bridge in 1923, hiring A.A. McLean, a prominent Tennessee bridge builder of the era known for covering his bridges specifically to preserve the timbers from weather damage. The finished Queenpost truss span measures just 44.7 feet across Little Chucky Creek. Greene County purchased the bridge for $750 in 1948, converting it from a private farm crossing into a public one, and in 1975 the Greene County Heritage Trust helped secure its status as a protected historic structure. A full restoration, funded by a $120,000 historical structure grant, was completed by the Greene County Highway Department in the fall of 2004, keeping the small red bridge standing more than a century after the family it's named for first needed a way across the creek.
