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Location of Parke County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Parke County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Parke County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Location of Parke County in Indiana. This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Parke County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Parke County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The locations of the historical markers and their latitude and longitude ...
Parke County has 31 covered bridges and is widely referred to as the 'Covered Bridge Capital of the World'. [8] It is the site for the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival which has been held in October each year. [9] Parke County is included in the Terre Haute, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Parke County bills itself as the covered bridge capital of the world. [1] Combined with six counties that surround it, there are 51 of Indiana’s 98 covered bridges in this small area: Parke County (32), Putnam County (9), Fountain County (3), Vermillion County (3), Montgomery County (2), Owen County (1) and Vigo County (1).
The Lusk Home and Mill Site was the first development in present Turkey Run State Park, Indiana's second oldest state park. The Lusk Home. Vermonter Salmon Lusk was awarded this land for serving in the Battle of Tippecanoe under William Henry Harrison. The Lusks were largely self-sufficient.
Richard Lieber Log Cabin, also known as the Old Log Cabin, is a historic log cabin located at Turkey Run State Park in Sugar Creek Township, Parke County, Indiana. It was built in 1848, and completely rebuilt in 1918. It is a one-story, hewn poplar log structure with a side-gable roof. It has a frame ell.
Billie Creek Village was a 70-acre open-air living history museum and park, filled with 38 historical buildings and structures, and hundreds of antiques and artifacts. It is located at near Rockville, Adams Township, Parke County, Indiana in the area known as the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World" for the county's 31 covered bridges
Rockville Historic District is a national historic district located at Rockville, Parke County, Indiana.The district encompasses 210 contributing buildings, 3 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Rockville.