The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge was built in the 1840s in Meriwether County by freed slave and noted bridge builder, Horace King (1807-1885). 

Constructed by the Town lattice design, the bridge's web of planks crisscrossing at 45 to 60-degree angles are fastened at each intersection with a total of approximately 2,500 wooden pegs, or trunnels.  Although King is credited with the construction of many covered bridges throughout West Georgia, this is his only surviving bridge of this design.  At 391 feet, including the approaches, this structure is the oldest and longest wooden covered bridge in Georgia.

The bridge's covered portion is 116 feet long, while its total span is 412 feet long, which is the longest total span of any covered bridge in Georgia.  Its long sills were sawn from heart pine and are 15 X 15 inches in dimension.  It is held together by approximately 2,500 pegs.

There were over 250 wooden-covered bridges in Georgia, but only 15 now remain. 

Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge was listed in the U.S. National Registry of Historic Places in 1973 while still in use.

Located at:  N33 02.308   W84 33.140    -    WGCB #10-99-02

Photographed in late November of 2018.