Famous Alabama Hanging
Stephen S. Renfroe, known as "Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff," was hanged either from or near the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge outside Livingston by locals in July 1886. During that time, the bridge was located over the Sucarnoochee River and not Alamuchee Creek as many sources state.
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