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Side view

Photos taken 2002 by Wayne Grodkiewicz

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Toll booth

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Underneath

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Photo taken by James McCray

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Overview: Closed four-span through truss toll bridge over Wabash River on IL 14 at New Harmony, Indiana
Status: Open to toll traffic
History: Built 1932
Design: Parker through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 299.8 ft.
Total length: 2,578.4 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +38.13090, -87.94155 (decimal degrees)
38°07'51" N, 87°56'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: INNBI 023305 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16884 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection
Average daily traffic (as of 2003): 100

Update Log

May 20, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
September 6, 2006: Posted photos from Wayne Grodkiewicz

Sources

Wayne Grodkiewicz - WGrodkiewi [at] aol [dot] com
James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com

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New Harmony Bridge

Posted May 19, 2008, by Jerry Harpe (jharpe24 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This bridge is open, as we drove across it last Saturday.

They still charge the $1 dollar toll. The road bed looked

to have been resurfaced, but then ground down level to the old road bed.

New Harmony Bridge

Posted September 26, 2007, by Donna (tue_loco [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge closed "indefinitely" at 3:00pm on Tuesday, September 26, 2007.

New Harmony Bridge

Posted September 6, 2006, by Anonymous

Its open to traffic.