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The Portland Mills Covered Bridge is the second oldest covered bridge in Parke County, Indiana, being built the same year as the Crooks Covered Bridge. It is a single span Burr Arch Truss covered bridge that was built by Henry Wolf in 1856. [2] [4] [5] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [3]
Since its inception in 1957, the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival has become Indiana's largest festival, luring about 2 million people a year. In Bridgeton, a massive opening-day crowd filled
The festival began in 1957, when a group of local women decided to hold a three-day festival to accommodate the many interested tourists looking for information about the bridges. Now the festival is thriving and puts Mansfield on the map 10 days of the year. The first festival was rather small and occurred only in Rockville. 2020 saw no festival.
At one time, as many as 53 covered bridges existed (wholly or in part) in Parke County. Today, 31 of those bridges survive, 10 of which have been closed to vehicle traffic. [2] The Jackson Covered Bridge is the longest single span covered bridge in Indiana. The Portland Mills Covered Bridge is the oldest of the county's covered bridges.
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Shortest covered bridge in the state Portland Mills Bridge: Guion, Parke County: 1856 130 feet (40 m) Little Raccoon Creek Burr Arch: Tied with Crooks Bridge as the fourth oldest covered bridge in the state. Potter's Covered Bridge: Noblesville, Hamilton County: 1871 259 feet (79 m) West Fork, White River Howe truss: Ramp Creek Bridge ...
This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Parke County. ... Portland Mills Covered Bridge [12] 1998 Along County Road 650N southwest of Waveland
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