Covered HORTON BRIDGE Bicentennial Plate

Blount County Alabama
1776 - 1976
American Bicentennial
Black Transfer Ware Plate
MADE IN USA
MINT CONDITION

Are you looking for an unusual bicentennial plate? If so, this one is certainly going to be a rarity, as it was limited edition produced to benefit the Blount County Historical Society.

This simple white stoneware plate has a gold trimmed rim. The front has a black transfer ware picture of the Horton Bridge.
 

Horton Mill Bridge (1935) towers over a deep gorge cut by the Warrior River in Blount County and is the highest covered bridge built over water in the USA. Talmedge Horton, a descendant of the family that founded the gristmill for which the bridge is named, helped construct the bridge. He says that it took "fifteen men working from sunup to sundown for a year and a half" to build it.

The back side has a brief history of the county, which originally belonged to the Muscogee Indians.

USA is impressed on the back.

It measures about 10 1/4" in diameter.

There are no chips, cracks, rubbed areas, or signs of crazing on this interesting plate. We could not find anything wrong with it at all.