Old Scotland Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span stone arch bridge over Sugar Creek on CR 200E
- Location
- Boone County, Indiana, and Clinton County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- At risk for demolition and replacement! Currently available for reuse.
- History
- Built 1901
- Builders
- - Charles Ridout
- John Adam
- Theodore Eck
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 41.0 ft.
Total length: 127.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1994
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.17673, -86.43158 (decimal degrees)
40°10'36" N, 86°25'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/548395/4447528 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mechanicsburg
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 170
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 0600028 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
NRHP 94000228 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15838 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 25.8 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 9, 2021: New video from Satolli Glassmeyer
- September 21, 2021: Updated by Nathan Holth: Doomed, unless new owner is found.
- October 9, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- March 6, 2010: Updated by J.P.: updated builders
- April 24, 2006: Posted photos from Chris Clouser
Sources
- Chris Clouser - morpar55 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- SHAARD database of Indiana historic bridges and sites - Bridge marketing information.
- Satolli Glassmeyer - info [at] scenicroadrallies [dot] com
Comments
Here is a photo of the grave down the road.
This old bridge has a very interesting history I read about last summer. If you look at the Google photo, beyond the deck, in the trees to the left, there used to be a white house that for many years the old woman who lived there, kept a candle burning in the window. She did this because approx. 1 1/2 miles south of that bridge on county road 200 east ( Lost Road ) there is and has been a grave along side the road since 1868. The makeshift headstone says a man and his son were found dead there next to their wagon succum to a disease that swept through Indiana at that time. Lost road refers to the wagon trail through the water ( Sugar Creek ) prior to the origional bridge. It was built in 1901, but was partially swept out, and rebuilt in 1908, this is why the center section looks a little different than the ends. The wagon trail appeared to be lost as you entered the woods approaching the creek. The Boone County highway dept. maintains that grave by applying concrete on top to stop erosion in the ditch as well as road reflectors along the road.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/boone/scotland/
Here is a photo of the grave down the road.