Horton Mill Bridge, Spanning Little Warrior River, Oneonta

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Spanning Calvert Prong Little Warrior River at Horton's Mill Road, just off State Highway 75, Oneonta vicinity, Blount County, Alabama Horton Mill Bridge is located at latitude: longitude: The coordinate represents the structure s north portal. This coordinate was obtained using Google Earth imagery dated June 26, There is no restriction on the release of this location to the public. Structural Type: Town lattice truss covered bridge Date of Construction: Designer/Builder: Zelma C. Tidwell, Locust Fork, Alabama

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The Horton Mill Bridge is one of three surviving covered bridges in Blount County, Alabama, one of the last strongholds of covered bridge building in the United States. Spanning an impressive 70-foot-deep gorge, the structure is noteworthy as the nation s highest covered bridge.

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The National Covered Bridges Recording Project is part of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a long- range program to document historically significant engineering and industrial works in the United States. HAER is administered by the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record, a division of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. The Federal Highway Administration funded the project. HORTON MILL BRIDGE HAER No.

AL-203 (Page 2) Chronology Blount County established by the Territorial Legislature Alabama becomes state admitted to the Union Ithiel Town patents Town lattice truss Alabama s first covered bridge constructed over Black Warrior River at Tuscaloosa Blount County population Second bridge built near this site Zelma Tidwell born at Locust Fork, Alabama Easley Bridge constructed Nectar Bridge constructed Zelma Tidwell becomes foreman of Blount County bridge crew Tyre Green Bridge construction Swann Bridge constructed Horton Mill Bridge constructed (third bridge at its site) Blount County stops building covered bridges Blount County Commissioners vote to repair and preserve covered bridges Horton Mill Bridge listed in the National Register of Historic Places Zelma Tidwell dies at Locust Fork, Alabama Horton Mill Bridge rehabilitated Horton Mill Bridge recorded by the Historic American Engineering Record HORTON MILL BRIDGE HAER No.

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