It is located on the campus of the University of West Alabama behind Reed Hall, which is off Student Union Drive in the city of Livingston.

During the American Civil War, the bridge was used as an access route to Mississippi by Confederate forces led by General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

During that time, a logging truck being used to haul timbers from the construction site accidentally crashed into the bottom of the covered bridge.

The bridge now serves as a campus access route for college students and also attracts visitors from various places to a longstanding piece of history in Sumter County.

[1] Stephen S. Renfroe, known as "Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff", was hanged near the Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge outside Livingston by locals in July 1886.