Portersville Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Camelback through truss bridge over Fourteen Mile Creek on Trail
- Location
- Charlestown State Park, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1912 by the Vincennes Bridge Co, Rehab 1975, Rebuilt in Charlestown State Park in 2011
- Builders
- - Cambria Steel Co. of Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Iron/Steel Manufacturer)
- Vincennes Bridge Co. of Vincennes, Indiana
- Design
- Pinned Camelback Through Truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 180.1 ft.
Total length: 359.8 ft.
- Also called
- Rose Island Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.42579, -85.62232 (decimal degrees)
38°25'33" N, 85°37'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/620256/4253958 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Owen
- Inventory number
- BH 49464 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 24, 2019: New photos from Mike Daffron
- April 8, 2018: New photos from J.P.
- November 12, 2017: New photos from Mike Daffron
- September 2, 2017: New video from Mike Daffron
- December 27, 2011: Updated by J.P.: Added category "Cambria"
- December 17, 2011: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Pin-connected", "One-lane traffic", "Trail"
- October 18, 2011: Updated by J.P.: added category.
- September 1, 2011: New photos from James McCray
- August 30, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added "new" name
- August 30, 2011: Added by J.P.
Related Bridges
- Portersville Bridge (Parts reused from) - Original Location
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Original Location page - This is the original page of the Portersville Bridge on Bridgehunter
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
So glad to see this restored.I crossed over it many times as a child traveling to jasper,indiana.Can't wait to see it in its new home.awesome👍
Great to see this bridge! I'm sure we traveled this a lot when I was a kid, but I don't remember it.
I would agree very much. I work in a youth group and I'm curious if any of them know the names of the kids who did that.
Wouldn't it be nice to see juvenile delinquents scrubbing till they cannot scrub no more every trace of paint marker and, or spraypaint from this latest Indiana restoration. Kid work-crews should be considered to used to remove eyesore grafitti they or their hoodlum pals do.
Bridge looks great at it's new home!
So what I did here, was added a new page for the new location with a link to the old location page. The bridge is in great shape, but beware, walking down is awesome because its down hill, walking back the hill is extremely steep.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/clark/portersville/
It is an awesome bridge, and well worth the journey, BUT be prepared for the rough walk back up the very big and steep hill. Not a walk I'd take my parents on.