Nectar Covered Bridge — Strange Alabama

The Nectar Covered Bridge was a wood and metal combination style covered bridge which spanned the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River in Blount County. It was located on Nectar Bridge Road just east of the town of Nectar or about 14 miles north of Oneonta.

Built in 1932, the bridge was at one time the seventh-longest covered bridge in the country and remained open to single lane motor traffic from its construction until it was burned by vandals in1993.

It was maintained by the Blount County Commission and the Alabama Department of Transportation. The Nectar Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 1981.

The bridge was once a community meeting place and a site for large baptism ceremonies.^[ A concrete bridge has since replaced the former covered bridge, but the old stone piers remain across the river south of the current crossing.