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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).
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type 4th Roann Covered Bridge: 1877 1981-08-06 Roann: Wabash: Howe Truss: Adams Mill Covered Bridge: 1872, 1900, ca. 1937
Gospel Street Bridge Extant Pratt truss: 1880 1981 South Gospel Street Mill Creek Paoli: Orange: IN-25: Tippecanoe River Bridge Replaced Baltimore truss: 1890 1981 CR 350 E Tippecanoe River: Rochester: Fulton
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The Laughery Creek Bridge aka Triple Whipple Bridge was built in 1878 and is the last triple-intersection Pratt truss bridge in the United States.. Laughery Creek is an 88.6-mile-long (142.6 km) [2] stream that flows through Ripley, Dearborn, and Ohio counties in southeastern Indiana, and is a tributary of the Ohio River.
Wheatstone may refer to: Cape Wheatstone, in Antarctica; Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), a British scientist and inventor, eponymous for Wheatstone bridge; Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph; Wheatstone, New Zealand, a locality in the Canterbury region; Wheatstone Glacier, in Antarctica; Wheatstone LNG; Wheatstone bridge, a measuring instrument ...
The Laughery Creek Bridge is the only known example of a triple Whipple truss bridge; it is located on the border of Dearborn County, Indiana, and Ohio County, Indiana. It crosses Laughery Creek. This bridge was built in 1868. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company, a prolific late 19th-century bridge company, constructed the bridge. The bridge is ...
Stone Arch Bridge over McCormick's Creek is a historic arch bridge located at McCormick's Creek State Park in Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934, and is solidly constructed of mortared roughcut limestone. The round arch has a 54-foot (16 m) span and reaches approximately 25 feet (7 ...