Nectar Covered Bridge
8 mi. SW of Nectar, Nectar, ALIn June 1934, the county commissioners ordered the construction of a high water bridge to replace the old low water bridge over the Warrior River. The bridge was to be built by Zelma Tidwell who was to receive $3.00 a day and his carpenters to be paid $2.00 a day and common laborers $1.25. The cost of lumber was $17 per thousand board feet. According to Tidwell, additional workers were supplied by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which at that time was supplying workers for county projects.
Local significance of the structure:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
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