Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge

The Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge is one of Alabama's oldest surviving covered wooden bridges, now preserved on the campus of the University of West Alabama in Livingston, where it spans a small duck pond. First built in 1861 — on the eve of the Civil War — the bridge was used at two different sites before being relocated to the university campus in the early 1970s. Its hallmark enclosed timber construction, a 19th-century technique designed to protect wooden decking from the elements, survives largely intact. Sitting quietly at the center of an active college campus, it offers an unusual juxtaposition of antebellum engineering and everyday student life.