# Settle's Bridge

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**Settle's Bridge** is a bridge in [Rockingham County, North Carolina](/source/Rockingham_County,_North_Carolina). The bridge crosses over the [Dan River](/source/Dan_River_(Virginia)) in between the towns of [Stoneville](/source/Stoneville,_North_Carolina) and [Wentworth](/source/Wentworth,_North_Carolina). Prior to the original bridge's demolition in 1953, it was one of the last [covered bridges](/source/Covered_bridge) in North Carolina. A modern concrete bridge was later built in its place.

## History

Settle's Bridge, crossing the [Dan River](/source/Dan_River_(Virginia)) on Settles Bridge Road, north of [Wentworth, North Carolina](/source/Wentworth,_North_Carolina), was one of three [covered bridges](/source/Covered_bridge) in [Rockingham County, North Carolina](/source/Rockingham_County,_North_Carolina)[1] It was built in the 19th century by Judge [Thomas Settle](/source/Thomas_Settle_(judge)) near his [Mulberry Island Plantation](/source/Mulberry_Island_Plantation) and along the tobacco farm of Walter Scott Irving.[1][2] The bridge developed a reputation for being haunted after a foiled assassination attempt took place there.[1] In the 1920s, the county commissioners voted to appropriate $250,000 to pave a road from [Madison](/source/Madison,_North_Carolina) to Settle's Bridge.[3] County Commissioner [J. J. Webster](/source/J._J._Webster) used his position to ensure that Settle Bridge Road was paved.[4] The wooden bridge was demolished in 1953.

## References

1. ["``THE BRIDGES OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY'\ QUITE A TALE COULD BE WRITTEN ABOUT LOCAL RIVER SPANS"](https://greensboro.com/article_61085f9a-38fc-5d14-acef-f4b9debe6e50.html). *Greensboro News and Record*. January 6, 1994.

1. Anderson, Francis I. (1980). *Anderson & Irving of Rockingham County, N.C. Cox & Bryan of Onslow County, N.C. and Related Families*. [Wendell, North Carolina](/source/Wendell,_North_Carolina): Avera Press. p. 35.

1. Richman 2007, p. 311.

1. Bolstad, Erika (August 2, 1997). ["SHILOH: REVERING HISTORY WHILE EMBRACING CHANGE"](https://www.greensboro.com/shiloh-revering-history-while-embracing-change/article_3c4c79d3-c056-5403-ae22-fbd49ddc864f.html). *[News & Record](/source/News_%26_Record)*. [Greensboro, North Carolina](/source/Greensboro,_North_Carolina): Daniel P. Finnegan. Retrieved March 10, 2020.

## Works cited

- Richman, Barak D. (2007). ["The King of Rockingham County and the Original Bridge to Nowhere"](https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/1587/). *Contracts Stories*. Foundation Press. ISBN 9781587787218.

## Further reading

- Carter, Robert W. Jr. (June 1982). ["Settle's Bridge"](https://dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/journalofrocking79rock/journalofrocking79rock.pdf). *The Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy*. **II** (1): 1–20. The Rockingham County Historical Society.

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