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Ceylon Covered Bridge
Photos
Overview
Photo taken June 2005 by Jack Schmidt
BH Photo #102671
Description
The long disputed date of construction has been settled. Research by Dr. James Cooper has discovered that this bridge was built in 1879.
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over an old channel of Wabash River on CR 950S at Limberlost County Park
- Location
- Adams County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1879 by Smith Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1963; closed to traffic 1974
- Builder
- - Smith Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 135.0 ft.
Total length: 135.0 ft.
- Also called
- Baker Bridge (Historic name)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.61428, -84.94289 (decimal degrees)
40°36'51" N, 84°56'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/674016/4497973 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Geneva
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 14-01-02 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 15776 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 9, 2019: New photo from Tony Dillon
- May 12, 2018: New photos from Mike Daffron
- March 19, 2012: New photo from Tony Dillon
- February 13, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated status per forum post that bridge is being rehabilitated.
- January 16, 2011: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added historic name
- November 13, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- November 9, 2010: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
- May 15, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Corrected date of construction
- November 25, 2008: New photos from Tom Hall
- July 31, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon
- April 10, 2006: Posted photos from Jack Schmidt
Sources
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- HAER IN-57 - Ceylon Covered Bridge, Spanning Wabash River at County Road 900 South, Geneva, Adams County, IN
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
- HAER IN-57 - Ceylon Covered Bridge, Limberlost Park, spanning Wabash River at County Road 900 South, Geneva, Adams County, IN
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
The bridge is currently off of the river and the trusses are being repaired. A very unique method was used to remove the Southern truss, is was slid to the West between sets of steel beams that were driven into the ground. The Northern truss appears to have been conventionally lifted. See the videos on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgN4sFJ4b3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVktnjEdfM