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Fountain Park Bridge
Description
The evidence is compelling that this bridge may have survived for 150 years, and now resides in a Rensselaer park. Two spans of different lengths were ordered by Jasper County in 1871 from the Ohio Bridge Company. This bridge shows a 5-panel configuration, which matches the extant one in Potawatomi Park.Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring pony truss bridge over Carpenter Creek on County Road 630 West
- Location
- Jasper County, Indiana
- Status
- Quite possibly the bridge that now resides at Potawatomi Park in Rensselaer.
- History
- Likely one of two bridges built by the Ohio Bridge Company under an 1871 contract.
- Builders
- - Ohio Bridge Co. of Cleveland
- William Rezner (Designer)
- Design
- 5-panel Bowstring pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.77806, -87.16329 (decimal degrees)
40°46'41" N, 87°09'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/486220/4514133 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 92258 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 17, 2022: New photo from Tony Dillon
- June 9, 2021: New photo from Tony Dillon
- February 25, 2021: New photos from Tony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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They were not the original abutments. The bridge was acquired from the county around 1916 and moved to that location. They were very crudely built and it's fortunate that they didn't heave and dump the bridge into the stream before it was moved again.