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Maxville Covered Bridge
Description
A compiled list of news articles were sent to me many years ago that outlined a number of bridges built in Perry and Spencer Counties by William T. Washer. One of them was a 200ft long single-span Smith truss covered bridge over the Anderson River at Maxville. Much was documented about problems with this bridge and that Washer was summonsed back several times to repair it. The little village of Maxville is now nothing but a memory. W.T. Washer lived in, and is buried in the nearby town of Troy.
Replaced with a metal Pennsylvania through truss.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Smith through truss bridge over Anderson River on Old Rockport to Tell City Road
- Location
- Spencer County, Indiana, and Perry County, Indiana
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built ca. 1870's
- Builder
- - William T. Washer
- Design
- Covered Smith through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.0 ft.
- Also called
- Lincoln's Ferry Bridge
Taylor's Ferry Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.99923, -86.81289 (decimal degrees)
37°59'57" N, 86°48'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/516428/4205746 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 90236 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 11, 2020: Added by Tony Dillon