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Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek, Franklin County

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Inventory Number: GA/10-59-01
County: Franklin County
Township:
Town/Village: Cromer's Mill
Bridge Name: Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek
Crosses: Nail's Creek
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 110'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1906
Builder: J.M. Hunt
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N34 16.507
Longitude: W083 15.959
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 1.5 miles southwest of jct GA51 on GA106, then 0.1 miles left on Cromers Bridge Rd. and right 300' on Baker Rd. West-southwest of Sandy Cross.

Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek Bridge, Cromer's Mill, Franklin County, GA. Built 1906
Jenn Caswell Photo, April 25, 2013

Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek Bridge, Cromer's Mill, Franklin County, GA. Built 1906
Bill Caswell Photo, April 25, 2013

Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek Bridge, Cromer's Mill, Franklin County, GA. Built 1906
Bob Sheldon Photo, July 30, 2011

Cromer's Mill or Nail's Creek Bridge, Cromer's Mill, Franklin County, GA. Built 1906
March 25, 1967 Photo, Palmer Werner Collection

Comments:
Closed. Per a Gatchell photo, the bridge was built in 1906 by Rink Hunt, who learned his trade from an African American. State route 106 originally crossed the bridge. It was bypassed in 1952, but saved by the efforts of J. D. Baker, as advertising for his general store and fell into disrepair. In September 1998, extensive repairs at a cost of $147,815.00 were started, and completed a year later. The Town lattice truss is fastened together with tree-nails, has timber chin braces inside each portal, with four additional sets of galvanized steel chin braces equally spaced between the timber chin braces, that were added during the 1998-99 restoration. Set over heavily wooded Nails Creek the bridge is not open to motor traffic. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 1976.

Sources:
French, Thomas L., Jr. & Edwards. Covered Bridges of Georgia, 1984, pages 33-34
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXVI, No. 3, Summer 1978, page 7
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 9

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