Overhead Bridge

Overhead Bridge, East Main

Follow Main Street, and bear left at the monument. You will soon come to:

Site 3—the foot of the OVERHEAD BRIDGE over the railroad tracks. The first Overhead Bridge was built in 1905 over the right of way of the Civil War-era Mobile & Ohio, later the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio, the "Rebel Route." You can look out over the tracks from the bridge. The GM&O passenger station—now gone—lies a few hundred yards to the north. In 1864, the tracks were lined with cribs, granaries and storehouses full of cotton and corn.