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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).
The Beeson Covered Bridge is a single span Burr Arch covered bridge structure that was built by the Frankfort Construction Company in 1906. The bridge is 55 feet (17 m) long, 16 feet (4.9 m) wide, with a clearance of 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m).
Dunlapsville Covered Bridge Replaced Burr truss: 1870 1971 West Dunlapsville Road East Fork of Whitewater River: Dunlapsville: Union: IN-33: Busching Covered Bridge: Relocated Howe truss: 1885 1973 CR 25 S (Covered Bridge Road) Laughery Creek: Versailles
Below is a list of covered bridges in Illinois. There are nine authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Illinois. Five of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular ...
Adams Mill Bridge was built in 1872 by the Wheelock Bridge Company. Both bridges were completed for a total cost of $12,237.33. In 1870 Richard Loman and others petitioned for a covered bridge to be built across the Wild Cat Creek, and the proposal was approved in 1871. The bridge used a Howe truss system. About 1900, the bridge was modified ...
The Bell Ford Post Patented Diagonal "Combination Bridge", often simply called the Bell Ford Bridge or Bell Ford Covered Bridge, is a dilapidated covered bridge located in Jackson County, Indiana, northwest of Seymour, Indiana. The bridge originally passed over the East Fork of the White River on a former alignment of State Road 258, and was ...
Spencerville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1873, and spans the St. Joseph River. It is a Smith Type 4 truss bridge on concrete piers. It measures 146 feet long and topped by a gable roof and sided with board-and-batten siding. It is one of only six ...
Frank Lloyd Wright's only bridge Tartar's Ferry Bridge: ca. 1880: 1980-10-29 Smithfield: Fulton: Parker Third Street Bridge (Delavan, Illinois) 1907 1999-05-20 Delavan: Tazewell: Double int. Warren Double Po Thompson Mill Covered Bridge: 1868