Holder Bridge
Hamblen County, near Morristown. Built 1919, 27 ft. long. A small private-property covered bridge over Moyer Branch, one of Tennessee's least-documented survivors.
Holder Bridge is among the smallest and least-documented of Tennessee's surviving covered bridges, a modest 27-foot span crossing Moyer Branch near Morristown in Hamblen County. Built in 1919, it sits on private property, and unlike Tennessee's better-known covered bridges — Elizabethton, Harrisburg, or Bible — it has never accumulated much of a public historical record, with even basic details about its builder and original purpose largely lost to time.
What has survived is the bridge itself, tucked away on private land and generally viewable only with the property owner's permission. Its longevity, quietly standing for over a century without the benefit of National Register recognition or a dedicated preservation society, says something about how ordinary and unremarkable covered bridges once were in rural Tennessee — small private crossings like Holder Bridge were common enough that most were never expected to become landmarks, and most didn't survive. Holder Bridge is one of the rare exceptions.
