Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge, Wooden covered bridge in Livingston, United States.
The Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge is a wooden structure on university grounds spanning roughly 88 feet in length. It features a Town lattice truss design made from hand-hewn yellow pine timbers fastened together with large wooden pegs.
The structure was built in 1861 over the Sucarnoochee River and served as a supply route to Mississippi for Confederate forces during the American Civil War. After damage from a logging truck, it was relocated and thoroughly restored by the Sumter County Historical Society between 1969 and 1971.
The bridge is maintained by the Sumter County Historical Society, which restored it in 1971 and again in early 2017. Its name links two crossings: the Sucarnoochee River site and Alamuchee Creek, where it stood from 1924 to 1958. In July 1886, Stephen S. Renfroe, the "Outlaw Sheriff" of Alabama, was hanged by locals near the bridge while it still spanned the Sucarnoochee.
The bridge stands behind Reed Hall off Student Union Drive on the University of West Alabama campus in Livingston, crossing the northeast corner of Duck Pond. A ramp makes it wheelchair accessible, and lights inside illuminate it at night. It is a pedestrian route for students, not open to vehicles.
The structure was not preserved at its original site over the river but was completely moved to the university grounds. This relocation allowed it to remain as a functioning passage rather than becoming a ruin.
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