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Howard Covered Bridge
Photo
1931 Robert Yule photo
Indiana Historical Society
BH Photo #446197
Description
Unique for it's rounded barn-like portals.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Burr arch-truss bridge over Little Raccoon Creek on Rockville Road (US 36)
- Location
- Parke County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built in 1859 by Henry Wolf; rebuilt in 1909 by J.A. Britton; replaced in 1931 with a metal truss bridge.
- Builders
- - Henry Wolf (1859 Build)
- Joseph A. Britton (1909 Rebuild)
- Design
- Burr arch-truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.76000, -87.16728 (decimal degrees)
39°45'36" N, 87°10'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/485670/4401133 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84924 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 6, 2019: New photo from Tony Dillon