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| Horace King Covered Bridge - built in Troup County, spanning the Wehadkee Creek, also known over the years as the Harmony Road Bridge, Neeley Bridge, and Wehadkee Creek Bridge. Bridge Description: A town lattice truss bridge originally built by the Horace King family of bridge builders, formerly enslaved craftsmen who became some of the most respected bridge engineers in the 19th-century South. When construction of the West Point Dam threatened to leave the bridge underwater, Callaway Gardens saved it by moving it, shortened to fit, onto their property in 1965, where it stood near the John A. Sibley Horticultural Center for decades but was eventually closed to the public. In 2020, Callaway Gardens returned the bridge to the community, and with support from the Callaway Foundation it was restored and relocated to LaGrange in 2022, close to 60 years after it left. It now sits near Horace King's grave at the revitalized Mulberry Street Cemetery, connecting to The Thread, LaGrange's popular multi-use trail, so it is once again open for the public to walk through. Directions: Mulberry Street Cemetery is located off Mulberry Street in LaGrange, Georgia, along The Thread trail. |
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