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Elder's Mill or Rose Creek (relocated), Oconee County

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Inventory Number: GA/10-108-01
County: Oconee County
Township:
Town/Village: Farmington
Bridge Name: Elder's Mill or Rose Creek (relocated)
Crosses: Rose Creek
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 99'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1897 (M1924)
Builder: Nathaniel Richardson
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N33 48.179
Longitude: W083 21.824
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 5.8 miles southeast of jct US129/441 at Watkinsville on GA15 (Greensboro Hwy), then 0.7 miles right on Elder Mill Rd. South-southeast of Watkinsville.

Elder's Mill or Rose Creek Bridge (relocated), Farmington, Oconee County, GA. Built 1897 (M1924)
Bill Caswell Photo, April 25, 2013

Elder's Mill or Rose Creek Bridge (relocated location), Farmington, Oconee County, GA. Built 1897 (M1924)
Jan Shultz Photo, December 1993

Elder's Mill or Rose Creek Bridge, Farmington, Oconee County, GA. Built 1897 (Moved 1924)
Bob Sheldon Photo, July 30, 2011

Comments:
This covered bridge was originally built over Calls Creek on the Watkinsville-Athens Road, just north of Watkinsville, Georgia. It was dismantled in 1924 and moved to its present location by John Chandler of Watkinsville by wagon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 1994.

Sources:
Georgia Department of Transportation. Elder's Mill Bridge, 2002, http://www.dot.state.ga.us/specialsubjects/specialinterest/covered/elder.shtml
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXVI, No. 3, Summer 1978, page 6
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 10

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