Waterworks Covered Bridge

A different side of this bridge from the posted photo. http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/b...

I was told I had to get a license to use it.

By the way there was a house boat or "Shanty boat" in this photo which also appears in the photo of the 4Th St. Bowstring bridge.

My mistake, had the fourth street bridge confused with this one! This bridge was left impassable by the 1913 flood as the approach fill to the abutment was washed out by the flood. Bridge stood on while the flood water flowed around it.

Unfortunately, my understanding is that all of the pre-1913 records were lost in the flood. So there are definitely some questions that may be hard to answer. I believe that the waterworks were relocated due to the reservoir.

IHS information states that this was the only bridge to survive the 1913 flood and lasted until 1934 and that it was on the Oxford Pike (Also referred to as Brookville-Oxford Road).

I suspect that this was the bridge near where the current US52 bridge is now. And that is where the Brookville waterworks are.

Tony, are you sure this bridge was there in 1913? I was told a new concrete bridge was there and was destroyed by the flood before it was even a year old. You could even see large pieces of concrete in the river.