The Stovall Mill Covered Bridge

 The Stovall Mill Covered Bridge on Chickamauga Creek, White County, GA.  

One of the shortest covered bridges in Georgia, although not the shortest, is the Stovall Mill covered bridge on Chickamauga Creek in northeast Georgia's White County. At 38 feet in length, it is just four feet longer than the Lula Bridge, east of Lula, Georgia on a now non-existent road.

Built by Will Pardue in 1895, using a modified Queen post truss design, the bridge takes its name from Fred Stovall, who operated a nearby grist mill for many years. The bridge replaced an earlier one which washed away in the early 1890s. It was in daily use until 1959, when the road was relocated away from the bridge. It is also called Sautee Bridge, Nacoochee, Bridge, Chickamauga Bridge, and Helen Bridge, because of its proximity to the tourist town of Helen. Now owned and maintained by the White County Historical Society, it's just a quick 2.7-mile drive up GA 255 from the Old Sautee Store -- another place you don't want to miss if you're in the Helen area.

North Georgia has two Chickamauga Creeks, by the way. The one in northeast Georgia that flows under the Stovall Mill bridge is smaller and flows into the Chattahoochee River just a few miles south of the bridge. The Chickamauga Creek in northwest Georgia is a larger and longer stream, beginning in McLemore Cove just a few hundred yards from our former home, and flowing north, eventually joining the Tennessee River at Chattanooga.

(The Stovall Bridge photo is another Olympus OMD-E-M5 photo, this time made with the Panasonic Lumix G-Vario 14-140mm f3.5-5.6 lens which stayed pretty much glued to one of my EM-5 bodies.)

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