Salem is an unincorporated community east-centrally located in Lee County, Alabama, United States.

A symbol of the area, the bridge was destroyed by a fallen tree following a storm in 2005.

It also destroyed the Anglican Church of the Resurrection, ACA Mission in the middle of downtown Salem.

The church was completed in 2008 in the building that most people knew as the old McLain Museum.

The tornado ran east-northeast across part of U.S. Highway 280, which runs through the small community, before lifting up two miles to the east.