Stuckey's Bridge, Metal bridge in Lauderdale County, US

Stuckey's Bridge is a metal truss bridge over the Chunky River outside Meridian. Its rusted brown-orange steel truss has triangular and diagonal members, and the deck is laid with crosswise wooden planks between two long stringers. Vertical wooden posts carry a low wooden railing, and a thick steel column with peeling gray paint stands at the right end.

The bridge was completed in 1901 and replaced an earlier crossing constructed in 1850 that had served the area. Its addition to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 recognized its importance to the region's transportation history.

According to legend, a Dalton Gang member called "Stuckey" ran an inn near the crossing where he robbed and murdered guests, burying twenty victims in the riverbank before he was caught and hanged from the bridge. The story gave rise to the name and to reported sightings of an old man with a lantern on the river's edge.

The bridge stands just outside Meridian, southwest across the Chunky River; the deck is wooden planks between low wooden railings, so watch your footing where boards are worn. The rusted steel truss and peeling gray column are best seen from the riverbank below. The bridge is a Mississippi Landmark and NRHP-listed site, so leave the structure as you find it.

The bridge appeared as "Old Man Stuckey's Bridge" on the Travel Channel series Most Terrifying Places in America, in a 2018 episode titled "Haunted Road Trips". The legend holds that Stuckey, said to be a member of the Dalton Gang, was hanged from the newly built bridge after murdering twenty guests at his inn.