Built in the 1870s by Marcus Worden, it is a Town lattice truss bridge, carrying Green River Road over the eponymous river in a small rural village of the same name.

[1] The Green River Covered Bridge is located in far western Guilford, at the junction of Green River Road with the Jacksonville Stage Road.

It rests on dry-laid stone abutments that have been capped in concrete.

[2] The bridge was built in the 1870s, and forms an important visual component of the village of Green River, which includes modestly scaled 19th century buildings, an old mill pond, and features unpaved roads and few modern intrusions.

Because of its remote location it does not see the heavy traffic that has stressed other covered bridges in the state.