Big Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge
Meriwether County, near Woodbury. Built in the 1840s, 252 ft over Red Oak Creek. Among the longest wooden covered bridges in the South.
The Big Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge stands north of Woodbury in Meriwether County, Georgia, spanning Red Oak Creek. Built around the 1840s, it uses a Town lattice truss fastened with wooden treenails and is counted among the longest wooden covered bridges in the South. The structure was built by Horace King, a freed slave who became one of the region's most respected bridge builders. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record. The bridge still carries a rural county road over the creek.
