Not a steel bridge, but this last spring I found out that a covered bridge that I last drove over 50 years ago was purchased by a company when it was dismantled in 1973 and put in storage until 1986. They then sold it and it was installed over a creek in a park. I made the trip to that county and drove over the bridge again. I might be one of the few people who's two trips over the bridge was separated by half a century.

I remember growing up and jumping off on that bridge in black fox. I can't believe it's still there. Blessing to you Donnie

Thanks so much for showing the old things we need to remember them. The creeks are so peaceful and beautiful.I tell my kids about the old things and ways.

Hello Mr Laws! Oh I’m so grateful & thankful for you that you’re documenting all of the history before it’s all gone. I’m with you sir…. I could sit forever on the banks & listen to the peacefulness of nature. I think it would be awesome if you could write a book or do audio books where you describe these things from the past! Have you ever thought about that?? In my humble opinion, YOU are a treasure to all of us!!! Blessings always! ❤️✝️

We have many of these in Western PA!! Some really old bridges and the state is repairing them lately. Thanks for the video!!

Thank you Donnie for sharing and keeping the memories of the steel bridges alive for future generations. We have a few steel bridges still around in Alabama, each time I see one while I'm traveling, it takes me back and I can almost see the old vehicles that traveled across the old bridge . I always enjoy listening to each of your videos and I'm looking forward to your wild life video on Monday. Until your next video, God bless you brother.

What a wonderful video Mr. Donnie. We enjoyed learning about these old bridges. When I was a kid there was a (reel to reel) short story movie called Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge they used to show us at school about a soldier hung on a steel bridge like one of these. They should restore these old bridges for foot traffic. Lovely. Have a wonderful day today and thank you always for all your effort making wonderful and meaningful tv for us to enjoy. God Bless you and yours. 🫶👏🙂

Beautiful footage of our fabulous land.. Those steel bridges that still stand, are treasured antiques. I just love the old pictures. Thank you, Donnie... God Bless 🙋💕

Good morning! My friend! Another great one Donnie showing how beautiful Appalachia is. Thank you for sharing with us all. I hope you have a great day that god has given us.

Thank you for sharing. I e seen many old steel bridges in my travels during my lifetime; here in TN, VT, DE, NY and others. The last one I actually traveled over was in VT in 2019. Sad that so much history is decaying in the old steel and covered bridges of bygone times Beautiful architectural structures Bless you

Morning my Freind

Donnie, not only are you providing entertaining videos, but your dedication to documenting disappearing American history for future education is admirable. Thank you

Always love your stories. They tore down our old steel bridge about 5 years ago. It was the end of an era.

Good morning Donnie Laws Interesting subject, love you're history and historical lessons you are sharing with us all God bless 🙏 Keep on keeping it real

Good Morning Donnie we really appreciate your videos they are so relaxing and great thanks for sharing them Have a great day and God bless you 🙏👍🇺🇸

There are not enough words to describe with Donny and showing us

They have been tearing down our steel bridges 3 that I know of .Thanks Donnie pretty country .❤

Gorgeous waterways and byways. I love old bridges. We keep our disused bridges here in Australia as well not do much in major cities like Sydney but coastal and rural areas do. I love the Louisiana swamp lands. I was given a vertical tour of the wetlands and they are so unique, no other country has these magnificent swamps. They say that Madison County has beautiful bridges I must see if I can find a video on them. 💚 love your your channel Donnie💜

Morning Donnie, thanks for sharing this great story of the past.

Thank you Donnie for keeping the history/stories alive. Thank you for sharing I truly enjoy and appreciate what you do. God bless you and your family. 🙏🏼🥰🕊️

You just keep on documenting Donnie…we’ll keep on watching! I love your videos!

I love the rustic look of these old bridges, thanks for sharing!

Mr. Laws tells the best stories and shows us the beauty of our great states.

Excellent memories,,,,, Thank you Sir!

Those old bridges really are one of a kind. You are correct , once they're gone they're gone. Truly a work of art to be admired. Oh, the sound of the streams and babbling brooks are so peaceful, just flowing on for miles sometimes. Awesome ! Thank you sir for the memories, your friend , Louise

The old blackfox rattling bridge on the thumbnail I have jump off that old bridge many times even put a swing on it once some good crappie fishing on that lake my old stomping grounds ty for the memories Donnie 👍

What's just as interesting is the construction of, and the workers that built all of these bridges. That was some very difficult and dangerous work back in the 10's, 20's, and 30's.

"I could get lost and stay here forever." Thanks Donnie❤️

I myself was fortunate to see some of the old metal bridges here in my youth...like there many have been replaced more by modern ones in the name of progress and that's ok...but the old bridges had a rustic beauty to them and were a marvel on engineering in their day. Thanks so much for such a beautiful history walk back into the past my friend. May the Lord bless and keep you until next time.😇🇺🇸😊🙏☕

Good morning sir 😊 have another great day. God bless 😊

Good job on this one. Here in NW. ga. the Etowah River and several creeks feeding the river resulted with us having our share of metal bridges. Most are gone but a couple still left just for show. Done my share of playing and swimming around these old bridges also remember the sounds our school bus made while crossing on those planks. Wonderful life I've been blessed with. Thanks for the show enjoyed it. God Bless. NW ga.

KZfaq hasn't let me know that you have uploaded video lately until this one popped up and I do enjoy you showing the Appalachians

Thank you Donnie for posting this video. I am a car and motorcycle enthusiast. I especially enjoyed the old bridges over the rivers in the beautiful areas of East Tennessee. I can envision people driving their cars and trucks over the steel bridges. Thank you Donnie and God bless you and your family

Thanks again for sharing Donnie, Bless weekend

Thank you Mr Donnie for ALL YOU DO, I PRAY FOR YOUR SAFETY WHEN YOU TRAVEL GOD BLESS

Golden Memories, Thank You For Sharing. GOD BLESS YOU

We had an old steel bridge on the lake where I grew up in SC but it’s gone now. I loved going under it in the boat. You’re doing a good thing. My area has changed so much you can’t tell it’s the same place anymore. My kids can’t believe it when I tell them how things used to look. It’s great to have these videos. God’s peace be with you.

Something romantic about old bridges. Love this video. Thank you.

Hello from KY love your channel ❤️.Thanks Donnie for another good lesson.We got rain for two days.Hope your critters got some.❤

GOD 's Country!! So breathtaking and beautiful! Clean air. Just looking at it all is refreshing!! Thanks so much Donnie!!❤🙏👋

That's some pretty fine drone piloting there Donnie...it gives us a nice birds eye view ....such nice countryside and lakes and creeks...it's great that the old bridges are getting documented on your videos for future gens.... Thanks again for the video Brother.

Donnie we are truly blessed to have u putting these videos out for all of us to watch..i love the old time structures and the old time ways of doing stuff.old time stuff was built to last a long time.

Love these beautiful old bridges. I can think of only maybe two left in my area. Thank you Mr.Laws for sharing this with us. God bless you, my brother.

Thank you my friend for reminding us of these old sentinels. There were 2 of these bridges in Smith County, TN over the Caney Fork River. The one close to Gordonsville had a 90 degree curve built into the bridge! The other, between Lancaster and Club Springs ended at a bluff with a 90 degree turn. I loved these old bridges!! My Daddy drove across the “Stonewall bridge, the one with the curve ON the bridge, pulling a bulldozer on a trailer. I was scared silly, he just laughed!! The other, Laycock Bridge was a frequent path for me as it was the shortest route to my best friends home. I was saddened when Laycock was torn down. I believe Stonewall is still standing, rusting away.

Here in LA (Lower Alabama) I'm lucky enough to live where there's a good dozen or so of these old bridges still standing in my area. None still in service. But they're great landmarks. Magnets for us young'ns back in them runnin-around years. Some people think they're ugly. But I've always felt they have a stark beauty about them.

Another mighty good'n brother!! Ain't no tellin how many people have crossed them old bridges way back yonder, even on foot. God bless and have a good'n my awesome mountain brother 🙏

thx. donnie...these iron bridges is all we knew as kids...we used to jump off the one in town...great fun. it is so nice to be reminded of these things from the past...you know, i still miss my kitchen cookstove a lot.

My husband knew where there were a few....loved to go fishing off them old bridges...memories ...I would love to go back for a while😊😊😊😊

thanks for another great piece of history. i spent about 2 weeks in Indiana during the fall covered bridge festival... was a great time. 2 more things on my bucket list is exploring Tennessee and driving the Blue ridge parkway :)

Thanks Donnie for all you do and time preserving the area. I once traveled all over that area for years. Thanks

Thanks my friend, well done.

If them old bridges could talk, oh ! What stories they would tell about each traveler that used them. . Thank you, Donnie. God 🙏 🙏 🙏 bless.

I am watching all the videos that I missed from previous years ❤ Thank you for the best videos I have ever seen. It calms my soul.

Oh I loved this Donnie, beautiful country. I could see myself trolling those waterways. Stunning. Thank you for sharing this ❤

So beautiful, you are so wonderful ❤️ 💖 💕 thank you Mr. Laws

Two of the old steel truss bridges here on the New River where I live are long gone now. Replaced by concrete bridges due to being damaged beyond repairs to the upper steel structures. Hit by over sized loads that broke and bent key parts of the truss supports. There's a few smaller truss bridges over some of the smaller creeks here in southwest Virginia. There's a few under Smith and Claytor lakes when they were built by Appalachian Power. Love the videos and thank you for saving our history and heritage of Appalachia.

Thanks sharing. Wish they could save that bridge. So much history thankyou.

I love watching your videos! But they bring tears to my heart. Knowing that all this will be gone in a few years. Donnie thank you for all the videos....

You brought back memories for me I used to jump off one of those last bridges you showed thanks Donnie. ✌️

Thank you for seeing the beauty in things that others never even pay any attention to Being from Campbell County, I love my heritage and I have so many memories You often highlight things that I haven’t thought about in years! Thank you!

Thank you Mr. Donnie for sharing SO much of the History there I've learned so much from ur stories and I just love them 💙

Glad to see such places still exist. Largely untouched by civilization and development Enjoy it while it remains. Being from the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, scenes such as this one by one become Industrial Parks mostly comprised of Mega Warehouses!

Good Morning Donnie. Beautiful Country. Beautiful structures. Thanks for sharing this.

Donnie Another great video. I love visiting old bridges I'm from ky Thanks my friend God bless

Have a great weekend Mr. Donnie. Thanks for the history lesson and God bless!

I remember as a tiny little thing, my family from NC (Mom, Dad, Sister and me) going "up home" to Fries Virginia and when coming out of Galax we would cross a HUGE Steel bridge. Tressel looking, "covered" crossing the New River. Back then it almost looked futuristic! My precious Husband and precious children and I went to back to "Home" when the floods hit Kentucky to take donations from NC to my Cousins church, they were taking the supplies to Kentucky to help those in need .. i was SHOCKED after telling my children about the "High bridge" the steel cocered, old trussel style steel bridge, to turn the curve and find it was gone. A beautiful but VERY different and much lower concrete bridge now stands in its place. There was a sadness when crossing mixed with the aw of the beauty of this new, fresh, modern concrete bridge crossing the most beautiful section of the new river!! Somewhere I have pictures of that bridge. Its amazing and yet so sad to see progress like these bridges. The story is, it was replaced because of time and stress on the metal but also due to the many wrecks of people coming out of a hard right turn, crashing into the steel girders. It was also quite narrow, very elevated out of the side of the mountain ridge, and you felt every bump from the build when driving over it. Thank you for sharing this. Im sharing this video with my children, (11, 5 and 3) so they can see what Mommy is talking about. Thank you Donny, God bless you beyond your imagination my precious friend! (Had to edit and add, nothing quite like Baptisms in rivers .. my Daddy was a Pastor and he baptized his big and only brother in New River in Fries Virginia. Daddy did many a baptisms in Cripple Creek and the New River before I was even born, but the last one he did in the river, I was a teenager and he was blessed to go up and Baptise His brother. Every other service was in a Baptismal inside churches after that one. How precious his last one in the river, the place where they started, the New River, was his own brother that he prayed so hard for all those years.)

I remember the old steel bridge in LaFollette. Thank you for this video, Donnie.

This was another great video Mr. Donnie you definitely don't see alot of those Bridges anymore. Thank you as always for sharing this history with us.

Love this show! I think I got pushed around on You Tube. Excellent historical accounts. So much history.😊

Great video beautiful country. I remember where I live we had an old steel bridge across the reddies River. It was not very wide only one car at a time could cross it you had to stop and check for another car and it rattled so much you thought it would fall. 😮 but they tore it away and and put in a new cement one. So many memories I really enjoyed seeing these pictures thanks for sharing this. You are so right it's going away so fast I look every day at a place where a old building or something used to be. Thanks for keeping all the memories alive. Looks like a great fishing spot.

I always enjoy your video's. Thank you teaching me Tennessee's history. Be blessed

Really nice video. My Dad ran a State Park in North Dakota back in the late sixties early seventies. The entrance was a steel bridge. I used to fish for pike under it. Went back about 10 years ago. The bridge is still up but it's closed to traffic. It's amazing how seeing it brought back memories. I'd love to see these bridges in person.

Thank you for documenting these pieces of history.

We had one here that I remember driving on before it was replaced. Thanks for sharing Donnie and have a great weekend!

Great video!! Thank you!! I hope you and your wife have a wonderfully blessed weekend! 😊

Donnie, I will see those Smoky Mountains one day and you will be my tour guide. Thank you and God Bless you.

Thanks Donnie for sharing the pictures of these old steel bridges and the beautiful overlook of the Norris lake / Powell Valley area . We have a steel bridge on Hwy 20 that's still in use today over the Appalachicola River. I've traveled over it hundreds of times. Beautiful view of the wide river below.

Great historic video, like always. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work, my friend.

A beautiful area, those old steel bridges had character. The new renar concrete bridges don't have the same appeal. Wonderful way to document the History! Take care.

Thank you donnie for helping me renew some of my memories god bless great videos

Thank you for sharing. God bless you and you family...🙏❤🙏❤🙏

If only more people cared as much about our history as you do brother..

I have some pictures of some old steel bridges down in Texas, and you are right, they are disappearing from our landscapes. I’ve rode many a dirt road in East Texas and crossed a lot of these kinds of bridges. Thanks for the memories.

Perfect video to watch on my lunch break 👍🏽🏈

Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤ God bless you and your family ❤

Great Video.Alot of things changed for sure.

Awesome video on history Donnie thank you for sharing with us,God Bless y'all.

We had an old metal bridge across the French Broad River below my house that was replaced. I got a good photo of it before they tore it down. It literally made me sick at what they called progress. That bridge had withstood floods,car wrecks,the elements and the passing of time just to be replaced by slabs of concrete. See you Monday. Have a Blessed weekend.

Enjoyed this one...I remember seeing some old bridges like that. In Battle Creek Michigan they have a park on the Kalamazoo River called Historic Bridge Park where several of these old bridges have been preserved.

Mr Donnie! Very good o' You..., providin' an account -- for "the record", for posterity -- of the Bridges, ol' Roads, Mountains, Creeks and Rivers that are such an integral part of the Memories of Tennessee. Those Bird's-Eye shots from Your drone..., Man! Talk about Your "Eye in the Sky". Great Work, Mr Laws. 🙂 Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky

Thank you for this Mr Donnie! Another great video and history lesson!

As always, thank you for sharing these wonderful videos, brother Donnie! Shabbat Shalom, shavua tov, and G-d bless you and yours!

Thanks for the great video Donnie! IN our neck of the woods we had these old bridges that as kids we jumped from and fished from, they're about all gone now. When we were little mom called them talking bridges as the old boards made their noises as we drove over them and I still use that saying today and people look at me funny when I say talking bridges. Just my moms way of entertaining us when we were little. Take care friend!!!

Always a pleasure Sir.

Love those steel bridges wow 1936 goes way back awesome interesting topic Donnie thanks man

I love these old bridges.. and farm houses.. the old mom and pop stores that have long passed… I definitely don’t like the way the world is today ..awesome video thanks buddy..

May God bless you always. I love your videos. It was so peaceful just watching this.😊❤

Good video thank you most were better built than the new ones. Take care be safe and well.

Good morning Mr Donnie! Thank you for another great video. I can hear how much you love your part of the country just by the sound of your voice! When I lived in Vonore Tennessee, I had that same love in my voice I can almost guarantee you that! The Appalachian mountains are a beauty like no other I have experienced so I can see where that voice comes from deep in your heart and soul! Hope you are having a wonderful day my friend and, as always, GOD BLESS 🙏✌️❤️

Happy Friday. Hope you have a nice weekend. Thanks for the feel good videos Donnie.😊👍