Description
Horace King built covered bridges over every large river in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder. The reader comes away from King's story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.
AUTHOR: JOHN S. LUPOLD, THOMAS L. FRENCH JR.
GENRE: Historic Biography
PUBLISHING: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2004. Published with the generous support of Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
ISBN: 0820326267 9780820326269
PAGE COUNT: 335 pages, 71 B&W illustrations
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