Irishman Covered Bridge 14-84-01
Facts
- Overview
- Queenpost through truss bridge
- Location
- Vigo County, Indiana
- Status
- Repairs completed, beautifully restored
- History
- Built 1845, Moved 1971 from original location over Honey creek on Feree road, to Fowler Park.
- Builder
- - C.W. Bishop
- Design
- Queenpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 75.0 ft.
Total length: 75.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Honey Creek Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.33823, -87.37129 (decimal degrees)
39°20'18" N, 87°22'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/468002/4354377 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lewis
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 14-84-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 38226 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 3, 2021: New photos from Garrett DiDomizio
- March 28, 2020: New photos from Mike Daffron
- January 6, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- May 27, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- May 26, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- November 9, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
- May 2, 2010: New photos from Robert Stephenson
- March 22, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: History
- March 8, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: GPS and alternate name
- November 25, 2008: Added by Tom Hall
Sources
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Garrett DiDomizio - garrettdidomizio [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
I 1000% agree with the notice on the bridge in picture 4. People that mutilate and vandalize these historic treasures should be Prosecuted to the full extent of the law!!!
.........But I have heard that story ever since I have been into bridges. Apparently it happened while they were building the bridge. Story has it the workmen returned to the bridge and found the ends covered with blankets, and when they investigated, a family in a covered wagon was inside and the mother had just delivered the baby. Reportedly they allowed the family to stay until they were ready to move on.
Not sure how they could really verify that whole baby thing............
Interesting historical plaque on this bridge. The plaque says this is the only covered bridge that ever had a baby born on the bridge... There must be an interesting story behind that little factoid. And we shall probably never know the rest of the story.
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I have forgotten how nice the parks in Vigo county are. Fowler, in which Irishman CB resides, is wonderful. There are several buildings recreating 19th century life. We used to take the kids there a lot. I can still hear my daughter Nickole, about 7 at the time, running up to us, with a huge white welp, very calmly saying "I think a bee touched my neck".