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Crawford Street Bridge

Parke County, Indiana, and Vermillion County, Indiana
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Circa 1908

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Description 

The predecessor of the 1949 truss bridge on US 36.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Wabash River on Crawford Street at Montezuma
Location
Montezuma, Parke County, Indiana, and Vermillion County, Indiana
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built ca. 1892, bypassed in 1949, demolished in 1951
Design
Iron pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss
Also called
Montezuma Wagon Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.79251, -87.37489   (decimal degrees)
39°47'33" N, 87°22'30" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/467902/4404795 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Dana
Inventory number
BH 47069 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Indiana (3,348)
Lost (10,376)
Lost 1951 (6)
Lost during 1950s (103)
Montezuma, Indiana (3)
Parke County, Indiana (81)
 Pennsylvania truss (308)
Pin-connected (1,521)
Replaced by new bridge (7,143)
Through truss (9,212)
Truss (23,578)
Vermillion County, Indiana (22)
Wabash River (87)

Update Log 

  • November 24, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
  • November 22, 2010: Added by Jacob P. Bernard

Sources 

  • Jacob P. Bernard - jacob_bernard [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Montezuma Wagon Bridge
Posted November 30, 2010, by Jim Grey (mobilene [at] gmail [dot] com)

US 36 was moved slightly south when the new bridge was built. The old roadway still exists, though, and leads right up to where this bridge used to be.