Discover Goose Creek: The Goose Creek Bridge

The following is a passage from The Goose Creek Bridge, Gateway to Sacred Places by Michael Heitzler. 

The common appearance of the Goose Creek Bridge belied its function as an important conveyor of communication and commerce for three centuries. The overpass carried official couriers, law enforcing militias and national armies across the convenient ford. British infantry crossed in search of wily patriots during the Revolutionary War and decades later, Union soldiers marched over, bent on transforming the slave-based society. However, no army, militia or messenger brought more traumas to the people of Goose Creek than the alarm riders galloping along the earthen causeway and across the wooden bridge on Easter Sunday, 1715. That morning, exhausted couriers brought news of painted natives on the paths of war, murdering every non-indigenous man, woman and child within their reach, and endeavoring to vanquish the British reign from Carolina.

Want to learn more about the Goose Creek Bridge? The book is available for sale on the St. James, Goose Creek Chapel of Ease website.