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Dunlapsville Bridge 14-81-02x

Union County, Indiana

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Dunlapsville Covered Bridge

Date 1926-05-06

Photo taken Frank M. Hohenberger Courtesy, The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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BH Photo #350044

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Burr arch-truss bridge over East Fork Whitewater River on Roseburg Rd
Location
Union County, Indiana
Status
Destroyed by fire and site flooded by Brookville Lake
History
Built 1870 by Archibald Kennedy. Burned 1971 while planning was underway to move the bridge as Brookville Dam was nearing completion and would flood the bridge.
Builders
- A.M. Kennedy & Sons
- A.M.(Archibald) Kennedy
Design
Burr arch-truss
Dimensions
Total length: 315.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.58982, -84.98779   (decimal degrees)
39°35'23" N, 84°59'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/672791/4384166 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
New Fairfield
Inventory numbers
WGCB 14-81-02x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 71421 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,536)
A.M. Kennedy & Sons (27)
A.M.(Archibald) Kennedy (1)
Built 1870 (139)
Built during 1870s (1,098)
Burr arch-truss (351)
Covered (1,641)
Destroyed by fire (189)
Indiana (4,907)
 Lost (24,610)
Lost 1971 (78)
Lost during 1970s (765)
Through truss (15,015)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,219)
Truss (32,705)
Union County, Indiana (16)
Wooden deck (6,065)

Update Log 

  • March 17, 2016: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Added category "Wooden deck"

Sources 

  • Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
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Dunlapsville Bridge 14-81-02x
Posted January 24, 2019, by Roy Kreutler (roykreutler14 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Here is another one Dunlapsville Covered Bridge from the interior.