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Blue River Main Street Bridge

Crawford County, Indiana, and Harrison County, Indiana
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Overview

This is an interesting bridge. Depending on which way you cross, each truss section either increases or decreases in size.

Photo taken by James McCray

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Facts 

Overview
Three-span pony truss bridge over Blue River on Main Street in Milltown
Location
Crawford County, Indiana, and Harrison County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1913; rehabilitated 1977
Design
Three riveted Warren pony trusses of varying size
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 75.1 ft.
Total length: 168.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Harrison County Bridge #M001
Crawford County Bridge #123
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.34039, -86.27351   (decimal degrees)
38°20'25" N, 86°16'25" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/563488/4243833 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Milltown
Inventory numbers
INNBI 1300067 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 15971 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 10/2009)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 18.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
132

Categories 

Built 1913 (507)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Crawford County, Indiana (30)
Harrison County, Indiana (21)
Indiana (3,348)
NR-eligible (3,748)
One-lane traffic (7,112)
Open (28,314)
Owned by county (16,490)
 Pony truss (13,217)
Riveted (1,011)
Select (538)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,718)
Structurally deficient (16,681)
Total length 125-175 feet (4,137)
Truss (23,574)
Warren pony truss (1,987)
Warren truss (3,961)

Update Log 

  • February 21, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Adjusted GPS coordinates
  • March 24, 2008: New photos from James McCray

Sources 

  • James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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Blue River Main Street Bridge
Posted February 27, 2011, by Richard Tekulve (CANOEINDIANA [at] YAHOO [dot] COM)

I just recently (Nov. 2010) completed canoeing the entire Blue River from Salem to the Ohio River. The Milltown bridge has been totally replaced with the same type of bridge that was installed downstream at the Rothrock Mill site.

Blue River Main Street Bridge
Posted May 19, 2008, by Jerry Harpe (jharpe24 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

There's discussion about making it a foot bridge after they build the new bridge upstream at the site of the old railway bridge, about 150 yards upstream from the present bridge.

Money seems to be the big holdup here. Being on the county line, neither county wants to foot the bill.

Blue River Main Street Bridge
Posted April 26, 2008, by C. Beringer (avelyncvb [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Anyone out there heard that the bridge might be torn down and a new bridge built? I think this bridge was metioned in the Corydon Democrat in March or early April (2008). I'm always searching for information regarding Crawford Co. in my search for ancestors, so I'm not sure where I came across this information.

C. Beringer