Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge

Posted by Jennifer Frazier on November 3, 2015

ALAMUCHEE-BELLAMY COVERED BRIDGE

Where: Livingston in Sumter County, Alabama

When Built: 1861

GPS Coordinates: 32°31′19.75″N, 88°11′12.22″W

During the Civil War, Confederate forces, led by General Nathan Bedford Forrest, used the Alamuchee-Bellamy Bridge as a path to Mississippi. This 88-foot-long structure was restored and moved to the University of West Alabama campus (behind Reed Hall) in 1969.

See all 14 of the covered bridges we photographed in Alabama at this link.

Alamuchee-Bellamy

Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge

All photography by Gary Clark, a former Southern Living Magazine travel photographer and photographer of the United States Postal Service 2014 Star-Spangled Banner Forever stamp. See more of Gary's work and contact him at www.thegaryclark.com.

Jennifer Frazier

After 10 years as a travel writer for Southern Living Magazine, Jen Frazier traded in the corporate world to stay home with her two children, three dogs and three hermit crabs.

Now she juggles carpool and laundry with writing for the Great American Country website, AAA Texas Journey Magazine and Texas Monthly Magazine, as well as blogging for thejensource.blogspot.com While she lives in the big metropolis of Dallas, she longs for weekends in the country. To learn more about this award-winning writer (recipient of the Barbara Jordan Award and the Luce Award), visit her website at jennifermfrazier.com