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New Ford Bridge
Photos
Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.
View more info about Indiana historic bridges from the SHAARD database
BH Photo #158834
Description
This was a "New" road with a Ford across the river that the county purchased in 1891 and immediately proceeded to build a bridge. Indiana Bridge Company was hired for the job and at the same time was dealing with replacing two spans of the bridge at Rockford a few miles to the North. I believe they reused those two spans as part of this bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over East Fork White River on New Ford Road (CR550N)
- Location
- Jackson County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1891 with two of the spans salvaged from an 1884 bridge; replaced in 1987
- Builders
- - Indiana Bridge Co. of Muncie, Indiana
- Indianapolis Bridge Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana
- Design
- (2)10-panel, pinned Pratt through trusses (1884)
(1)8-panel, pinned Pratt through truss (1891)
(1)6-panel, pinned Pratt through truss (1891) - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 140.0 ft.
Total length: 560.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.5 ft.
- Also called
- Old County Bridge #90
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.95685, -85.93677 (decimal degrees)
38°57'25" N, 85°56'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/592123/4312525 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Seymour
- Inventory number
- BH 44539 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 24, 2020: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- March 23, 2010: Added by Anthony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
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It's great to be a part of the many dedicated "Bridgehunters" that make this website what it is. The passion and dedication that I see from the contributors here just help to keep me focused in documenting our historic spans of past and present.
The New Ford Bridge is one of the lost spans from Indiana's SHAARD database, a treasure trove of bridges extant in the 1980's. Sadly, today approximately 70% of these landmarks have been obliterated and lost forever. As time permits I will continue to add these "glimpses" from the past. They help us to remember just how fragile our historic bridge heritage really is.
P.S. Thank you for the kind words Todd!