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Overview: Pony truss bridge over Lye Creek on CR 475 East
Location: Montgomery County, Indiana
Status: Closed to all traffic
History: Built 1879
Design: Pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 70.8 ft.
Total length: 88.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Inventory numbers: INNBI 5400043 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16680 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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Lye Creek Bridge

Posted April 27, 2007, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Here is builder's plaque incorporated into endpost.

Lye Creek Bridge

Posted March 26, 2007, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge was moved to Indianapolis to span the Central Canal on a pedestrian trail. It is a bedstead pony truss and was built by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.