Built over the Calvert Prong of the Locust Fork, five miles north of Oneonta, replacing an 1894 bridge that served Thurman Horton’s water mill. At 70 feet above the gorge floor, it is the highest covered bridge above a river in the United States, and on December 29, 1970, it became the first covered bridge in the southeastern United States listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Appears in: Zelma Clyde Tidwell, Blount County’s Bridge Builder.