Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge Historical Marker

Located at Fannie Askew Williams Park, Old River Rd., 2 miles from Hilton
31.306833, -85.07898

COHEELEE CREEK COVERED BRIDGE

 

ACCORDING TO THE MAY 2, 1883 MINUTES OF THE

 

EARLY COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, A

 

COMMISSION WAS APPOINTED "TO INQUIRE INTO THE

 

PRACTICABILITY OF CONSTRUCTING A BRIDGE ACROSS

 

COHEELEE CREEK AT McDONALD FORD." HOWEVER,

 

THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WAS NOT LET

 

UNTIL JULY 7, 1891. COST OF LABOR AND SUPPLIES

 

TOTALED $490.41 WITH J.W. BAUGHMAN SERVING

 

AS SUPERVISOR AND W.C. SHEFFIELD, CHAIRMAN

 

OF THE 1891 COMMISSIONERS.

 

ERECTED BY

THE HISTORIC CHATTAHOOCHEE COMMISSION

AND THE EARLY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1980

 

J.J. JAXON CO. - EUFAULA, AL.

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