Bridge For Sale – Used

Fayette County will auction off the old truss bridge that crosses Cummins Creek on Haw Creek Road.

Pct. 2 Commissioner Luke Sternadel said a person interested in the bridge approached him about purchasing it a few months ago. At a meeting on June 10, Assistant County Attorney Blake Watson said the County owns the bridge. If the County wishes to sell it to a private buyer, Watson said, Commissioners would have to declare it as salvage or surplus property and then sell it through an auction open to the public. Commissioners voted to do so on June 10.

Commissioners will vote to set a date for the auction on July 8. Commissioners Court Administrator Cassie Austin said the auction would likely take place in August. Watson said a deed from the 1940s documented the bridge in place at that time. The County abandoned it and built a new bridge a short distance to the east in the 1990s. According to Rox Ann Johnson of the Fayette Heritage Museum and Archives, the bridge dates to a time much earlier.

Johnson said the bridge was originally constructed on Willow Springs Road. It was located on the old Fayetteville to Industry road and completed in

December 1915, she said. However, the bridge was bypassed in the 1920s when State Highway 159 was completed. She said the bridge was moved to Haw Creek Road around 1929.

The approximately 12-foot wide bridge spans nearly 250 feet across Cummins Creek.