Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge

Captain William A. C. Jones built this 88-foot covered bridge in 1861, one of the oldest surviving in the South. It was moved twice and now crosses the duck pond on the University of West Alabama campus in Livingston. Its ghost story belongs to Stephen S. Renfroe, Sumter County's "Outlaw Sheriff", elected in 1878 and later a horse thief, robber and killer across Alabama and Mississippi. In July 1886, eight men stormed the jail where he was held, took the keys from the jailer, marched him through Livingston and hanged him near the Sucarnochee River, by the bridge's original site. He was never tried for what he was accused of. Visitors have reported a figure standing in the bridge's window openings, a dark shape pacing the deck, a man on horseback, and sudden cold spots. A historical marker at the bridge records the story as Renfroe's Ghost.