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Friendship Bridge

Ripley County, Indiana

Photos 

Photo taken by Anthony Dillon in November 2008

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BH Photo #126902

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
4-span stone arch bridge over Raccoon Creek on Olean Road
Location
Ripley County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built in 1909
Design
Stone arch
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 21.6 ft.
Total length: 103.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Olean Road Bridge
County Bridge #3
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.97399, -85.15915   (decimal degrees)
38°58'26" N, 85°09'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/659466/4315502 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Cross Plains
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
350
Inventory numbers
INNBI 6900003 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16983 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2016)
Overall condition: Fair
Sufficiency rating: 63.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Arch (12,063)
Built 1909 (768)
Built during 1900s (7,194)
Deck arch (11,301)
Functionally obsolete (6,461)
Have street view (26,852)
Historic Bridge Weekend 2012 (47)
Indiana (4,909)
NR-eligible (4,046)
 Non-Select (300)
One-lane traffic (7,599)
Open (39,830)
Owned by county (20,733)
Ripley County, Indiana (43)
Span length under 25 feet (6,854)
Stone arch (3,043)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,162)

Update Log 

  • July 25, 2018: New Street View added by Jeff Wieland
  • June 11, 2017: New photo from Tony Dillon
  • February 11, 2011: Updated by Anthony Dillon: changed build date based on historic photos
  • November 2, 2008: New photos from Anthony Dillon

Sources 

  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Jeff Wieland
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Friendship Bridge
Posted March 27, 2013, by Glen Gray (fasted1988 [at] msn [dot] com)

One Of The Two Bridges In The Area I Would Want My Ashes Spread From...

Friendship Bridge
Posted January 1, 2010, by Harold Scudder (hlscudder [at] cablespeed [dot] com)

My wife and I visited this bridge about 2 years ago. I don't normally pay much attention to stone or concrete bridges but this one is an exception. We hung around this bridge for quite sometime.