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Ruff's Mill and the Concord Covered Bridge
Smyrna, Georgia
Tyler Lahti · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Martin Ruff won this land in the 1832 lottery that distributed Cherokee territory and built a water powered grist mill on Nickajack Creek in the 1840s. Union troops fought their way past the mill on 4 July 1864 and burned the bridge and much of the settlement. The bridge was rebuilt and still carries traffic, the only covered bridge you can drive in Cobb County.
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