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New Salem Church, Banks County

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Inventory Number: GA/10-06-10x
TLF Number: 19D
County: Banks County
Township:
Town/Village: Salem Church
Bridge Name: New Salem Church
Crosses: Gun Creek / Grove Creek
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 46'
Roadway Width:
Built: after 1937
Builder: William Madison Thomas
When Lost: Spring 1984
Cause: Collapsed
Latitude: N34 15.522
Longitude: W083 25.345
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: ½ mile east of route 59 and 1½ miles south of route 64 on CR227.

New Salem Church Bridge, Salem Church, Banks County, GA Collapsed Spring 1984
Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection

New Salem Church Bridge, Salem Church, Banks County, GA. Built after 1937 Collapsed Spring 1984
July 1966 Photo, Palmer Werner Collection

Comments:
This was the last covered bridge built on a public road in Georgia. The 1951 Banks County Roadmap shows this crossing as a covered bridge. The 1956 World Guide shows a 214-foot bridge ½ south of SR59, perhaps corresponding to this location, though the length would have had to include approaches for this location. It was bypassed in 1967. The crossing has been replaced by a culvert.

Sources:
Lane, Oscar F.. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 1972, page 7
French, Thomas L., Jr. & Edwards. Covered Bridges of Georgia, 1984, pages 21-22
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXVI, No. 3, Summer 1978, page 7