ALAMUCHEE-BELLAMY COVERED BRIDGE
Covered Bridge — Livingston, Sumter County County, Alabama
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/alamuchee-bellamy-covered-bridge-livingston-alabama/

Covered bridge in Livingston; research record.

A covered bridge in Livingston, Alabama, Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Covered bridge in Livingston; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. Ask the file who haunts it and it answers: Stephen S. Renfroe. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The Alamuchee-Bellamy is the bridge that has crossed three waters — the Town lattice span Captain William Alexander Campbell Jones built of hand-hewn yellow pine in 1861 over the Sucarnoochee River, the crossing Nathan Bedford Forrest used for Mississippi. It fell in 1892 and was rebuilt; when concrete replaced it in 1924, the county moved it five miles to Alamuchee Creek; in 1971 the University of West Alabama took it, and it spans the campus duck pond now.
The pegs are still the construction — large wooden trunnels in the lattice, the design Ithiel Town patented for bridges a farmer's crew could build. One of the oldest covered bridges in the South, it's been moved twice and carried everything from Confederate cavalry to students, and it outlasted both the river road and the creek road it was built for.
The file keeps Alamuchee-Bellamy: the 1861 pine, the Forrest crossing, the two moves, and the bridge that ended up over a duck pond.
The Alamuchee-Bellamy is the archive's Livingston file — the Confederate bridge, the Town lattice, and the campus where it rests.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Alamuchee-Bellamy is the archive's Livingston file — the 1861 span, the Forrest connection, and the three crossings.
A bridge moved twice keeps its pegs — the file's suggestion being that Alamuchee's hold is the persistence: the hand-hewn pine that outlasted its rivers, and the span that found a third home over a pond.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] shadow figure: The guide recounts a pacing outlaw-sheriff shadow. The figure answers to Stephen S. Renfroe in the retellings. The reports at Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/

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