Covered Bridge in Cobb County Destroyed in the 1960s

 Marie's Postcard Collection. Speaking of shopping centers and other things in Cobb County that was here then but not now, here is Sope's Creek Covered Bridge. It was near to a paper mill on the creek that General Sherman arrested the women workers as traitors and sent them up north to "fend" for themselves. The postcard says the creek and bridge was named after local Indian Chief Sope. I didn't know that.

The card goes on to say the bridge was built about 1870 (I didn't know that either). The card also says the nails were wooden pegs... another thing I did not know. See how educational reading a postcard can be?
It is not on the card but it was destroyed in 1963, I knew that one.  A next door neighbor one year younger than i, Carol Joe Clayton, and I grew up togethers, from toddlers to adulthood.  Carol Joe and an oncoming truck had a head-on collision at night and the bridge was destroyed and so was my lifetime buddy.  I was in the Navy then.