Concord Covered Bridge
Concord bridge has become the focus of the Concord Covered Bridge Historic Area. An old railroad bed, including a few bridges, in the area has been converted to a dedicated bike trail as part of the PATH Foundation's Silver Comet Trail. Even the bridges along the nearby East-West Connector have been given a timber motif. This historic area also has remnants from Ruff's Mill, the scene of a Civil War battle. Ruins of the dam are still upstream of the bridge as well as parts of the grist mill. The miller's house is still a residence.
On a visit in May of 1999 the bridge was still closed for repairs but opened shortly afterwards. Though historically it has the highest traffic count of all the covered bridges in the state combined, the count has diminished with completion of the East-West connector. Nonetheless, repairs were expedited and completed ahead of schedule to get this bridge back in service as soon as possible.
Note: Fast and high traffic makes a visit to this bridge dangerous.
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End View |
Queen Post Trusses |
Steel beams carry
traffic loads |
Downstream Side |
This bridge originally consisted of only two spans, each a queen-post truss with steel (or iron) tension rods. The center abutment, as can be seen in the photo of the steel beams above, seems to have been widened from a previous bridge using the same pier. In the 1950's steel beams were added to support the bridge and additional concrete piers were added. There is also a fourth all-steel support which can be seen in the downstream view.
- County: Cobb
- Other names: Nickajack Creek Covered Bridge
- Length: 131.7 ft.
- Width: 16 ft.
- Built: 1872
- Builder: Robert Daniell & Martin L. Ruff
- Truss: Queen-rod
- Stream: Nickajack Creek
- Road name: Concord Road
- Traffic: Yes
- WGCB Number: 10-33-02
- Parking: No
- Picnic area: No
- Historic Marker: Yes
- Owner: Cobb County
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Repairs performed by DOT on this bridge.
Updated September 17, 2002. 17:26
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