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Harrodsburg Covered Bridge
Photos
Indiana Historical Society
BH Photo #446161
Description
Vandals cut the lower chords of this bridge causing it to collapse into the creek.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Smith through truss bridge over Clear Creek on State Route 37 (Old Alignment)
- Location
- Monroe County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge after collapse due to vandalism.
- History
- Built in 1874 by the Smith Bridge Company; replaced in 1949
- Builder
- - Smith Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio
- Design
- Smith through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 82.0 ft.
Total length: 88.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.5 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.01885, -86.54363 (decimal degrees)
39°01'08" N, 86°32'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/539507/4318967 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84921 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 21, 2021: New photo from Garrett DiDomizio
- May 22, 2020: New photo from Mike Daffron
- April 6, 2019: New photos from Tony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Garrett DiDomizio - garrettdidomizio [at] gmail [dot] com
You're right Tom... I had forgotten about that!
I'm sure it was done to hasten the building of a new bridge, as the old one was looking pretty dilapidated.