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Pool's Mill Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Forsyth County, Georgia

"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
"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 · Willybee42 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Pool's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Forsyth County, Georgia. Georgia has 16 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It crosses Settingdown Creek.

Status check, 2026-11: Town lattice bridge (spelled Poole's Mill) that replaced one lost in a flood around 1899-1900; sources give 1900, 1901 or 1906 and 94 or 96 ft, and a middle support pier was added in the mid-1990s. Pool's Mill Covered Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It stands at 34.2910° N, 84.2426° W.

Key facts

CrossesSettingdown Creek
Heritage designationNational Register of Historic Places listed place
National RegisterListed
Coordinates34.29096, -84.24259

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