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Geneva Bridge (1913)
Description
Replaced a WIBCo. Whipple truss bridge that was possibly damaged or destroyed in the 1913 flood. Part of the cut stone substructure was reused for this bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Parker through truss bridge over Flat Rock River on Vandalia Road (in the town of Geneva)
- Location
- Shelby County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built in 1913 by the Central States Bridge Company
- Builders
- - Central States Bridge Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana (Fabricator)
- National Concrete Co. of Indianapolis, Indiana (Contractors)
- Design
- 9-panel, Pinned Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 174.0 ft.
Total length: 174.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.7 ft.
- Also called
- Flatrock River-Vandalia Road Bridge Old County Bridge #132
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.39133, -85.72119 (decimal degrees)
39°23'29" N, 85°43'16" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/610123/4360984 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Waldron
- Inventory number
- BH 44262 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 9, 2020: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added information.
- February 27, 2010: Added by Anthony Dillon
Tony, thanks for the pictures. For the first time in over 20 years I get to see an image of this bridge. It was on the way to my grandparents and we always went past it on the way. A couple times my grandparents took me, my brother, and cousins walking across. This was a neat setting for a bridge like this in a little town where there are waterfalls in the area. I can remember people swimming and in small boats. I was only five or six when it was torn down in like 1986 or '87 and could not understand why at the time.