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Batson Covered Bridge
Description
Very little is known about this bridge. My dad is from Warren and other than knowing that the Batson family owned all of the land around this crossing, nothing else was remembered about the bridge.Featured a scalloped portal design that was used by the Western Bridge Company. They would soon reorganize as the Western Bridge Works, and would transition from wooden to iron truss bridges.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Covered Howe truss bridge over Salamonie River near the current SR-3 Bridge.
- Location
- Wells County, Indiana
- Status
- No longer exists
- Builder
- - Western Bridge Co. of Ft. Wayne, Indiana
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.63513, -85.37206 (decimal degrees)
40°38'06" N, 85°22'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/637667/4499528 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84856 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 23, 2023: New photo from David Shedlock
- August 9, 2022: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added loss date based on Melissa's article.
- August 9, 2022: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 14, 2021: New photo from Mike Daffron
- May 2, 2020: New photo from Mike Daffron
- March 31, 2019: New photo from Tony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- David Shedlock
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/wells/batson-covered/
Thanks for "re-posting" this pic Mike!
My info on the other photo was incorrect as I found it to be the Old Red CB that was West of Huntington over the Wabash.