The Bridge to Nowhere

Howard's Covered Bridge in Oglethorpe County, Georgia

My travels around Georgia have led me to many remote and lonely places, but probably none more so than this old bridge.

Just off a gravel road in a seldom-traveled area of northeast Georgia sits Howard's Covered Bridge. Built in 1904 across Big Cloud Creek in an isolated part of Oglethorpe County, the bridge is 164 feet long and built with Town Lattice Truss construction, with timbers fastened together with wooden pegs. The original builder was probably J. M. "Pink" Hunt. Built with convict labor and named for a pioneer family that settled in the area in the 1700s, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and restored in 1998.

The bridge is still maintained, probably by the county or the state, and appears to be usable, but no one uses it now, and probably not for a long time. My research does not turn up any information about the road at the other end of the bridge, or where it led. It has long ago been obliterated.

Howard's Covered Bridge is truly the bridge to nowhere.

(The camera was an Olympus OMD-EM5, with a Panasonic Lumix 14-140mm-II f3.5-5.6 lens -- a very useful lens that pretty much stayed glued on that camera.)

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