Lumber Bridge’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Lumber Bridge. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusLumber Bridge is a town in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 82 at the 2020 census. The town was incorporated by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1891. Believed to date from 1776, the original land grant was part of the holdings of Levey Glass. The town's name comes from the hand-hewn wooden bridge over the Little Marsh Swamp.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 94 to 82 (-13%). Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lumber Bridge yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Lumber Bridge’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lumber Bridge’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewHistoric American Buildings Surve…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lumber Bridge, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Lumber Bridge is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lumber Bridge has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is MacDonald, Flora, College in Red Springs, 7.7 miles away.
Lumber Bridge and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Historic American Buildings Survey, D.H. Smith, Photographer, 1940 GENERAL VIEW. - Presbyterian Church and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.