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Versailles State Park (pronounced locally as ver-SAYLES) is an Indiana state park, near the town of Versailles, Indiana in Ripley County. The land was given by the National Park Service for use as a state park to Indiana's Department of Conservation in 1943. [2] The park draws about 225,000 visitors annually. [1]
Versailles, Ripley County: 1885 176 feet (54 m) Laugher Creek Howe truss: Located at Versailles State Park. Cades Mill Bridge: Steam Corner, Fountain County: 1854 150 feet (46 m) Coal Creek Howe truss: Oldest bridge in the state Cataract Covered Bridge: Cataract, Owen County: 1876 140 feet (43 m) Mill Creek Smith Type IV Truss: Catlin Bridge
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
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.
The Recreational Demonstration Area program (also known as the Recreation Demonstration Area program) was a National Park Service program during the 1930s and early 1940s that built forty-six public parks in twenty-four states on 397,000 acres (1,606.6 km 2), chiefly near urban areas in the United States. [1]
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The road enters Versailles from the southeast and begins a concurrency with U.S. Route 421 (US 421). The two routes head north towards downtown Versailles and US 50. At US 50, the concurrency with US 421 ends when it heads east concurrent with US 50. SR 129 heads east concurrent with US 50 and leaves town, entering Versailles State Park.
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