The TVA replaced it with Nickajack Dam, built slightly downstream. After that the TVA partially demolished the Hales Bar Dam. The powerhouse is now used as a private event space and is open for tours. A marina has also been developed there. Following TVA's renovations to the dam in the 1940s, workers moved on to other projects, and Guild became largely deserted. The post office was moved to Haletown. Guild Elementary School, which was the last remaining school in the community and part of the local Marion County public school system, closed in the early 1970s with students then being bused to nearby Jasper Elementary School in Jasper, Tennessee instead. The Guild post office, which opened on August 11, 1906, is now located in Haletown; its ZIP code is 37340. Being along a major route east to west and eventually by highway, a crossing at the Tennessee River was a necessity. Rankin's Ferry on the Tennessee River between Guild and Shellmound, Tennessee operated here well into the late 1920s. This old river ferry was replaced in the early 1930s with the completion of the Marion Memorial Bridge (or Veteran's Memorial / U.S. Highway 41 bridge) between this point and Hale's Bar. The old ferry landing was inundated by Nickajack Lake (reservoir) after the completion of the TVA's Nickajack Dam in the 1960s. The former Marion Memorial Bridge (also known as the Marion Veteran's Memorial Bridge or Haletown Bridge) carried U.S. Highway 41, U.S. Highway 64, and U.S. Highway 72 over the Tennessee River at Haletown, but lost most of its traffic to the nearby Interstate 24 bridge after its completion and the opening of I-24 between Nashville and Chattanooga in the early 1970s. Despite being on the National Register of Historic Places, the iconic metal truss bridge was permanently closed on January 9, 2012, and replaced with a modern, wider, and more driver-friendly steel girder bridge which opened in November 2014, just to the side of its predecessor. The former truss bridge was demolished in 2015. It was removed from the National Register of Historic Places following its demolition in 2016. While the new bridge is not as iconic as the former, it's much safer and allows easier access when I-24 is backed-up and traffic must use it to detour and cross the new bridge. It is assumed that the new bridge has adopted the "Marion Memorial Bridge" name designation