- Poole's Mill Covered Bridge GHS
Historical Marker
- Located in Poole's Mill Park on Poole's Mill Rd off
Ga 396
(Text)
Poole's Mill Covered
Bridge
Cherokee Chief George Welch constructed
a grist mill here on his extensive homeplace c. 1820. An uncovered
bridge was later added. With the 1838 removal of the Cherokees,
the land was sold to Jacob Scudder. Dr. M. L. Pool purchased
it from Scudder's family in 1880. Abandoned in 1947, the mill
burned in 1959. The original bridge washed away in 1899 and was
replaced with the present 96-foot structure in 1901. Constructed
in the Town lattice design by Bud Gentry, the bridge's web of
planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles are fastened
with wood pegs, or trunnels, at each intersection
| 2000.7 |
- Erected by The
Georgia Historical Society and
- the Historical Society
of Forsyth County, Inc.
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58-2 |
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to see GHS marker website.
© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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