LOWELL COVERED BRIDGE
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The Lowell Covered Bridge is no longer standing … it crossed the Driftwood River on or near West Lowell Road, Bartholomew County. This double span Howe Truss structure had a length of 286 feet 6 inches, with a portal clearance of 17 feet wide by 14 feet 6 inched high. Built in 1870, the portals bore an eastern design that made it unique in Indiana, and the structure was lost in 1959. The town of Lowell was named in honor of the Massachusetts hometown of the Gale brothers, who were the first settlers in the area; because of its close proximity to Lowell, this structure also bore that moniker. George Gould identified a World Guide number of 14-03-03 for the Lowell Covered Bridge in his book "Indiana Covered Bridges Thru the Years," published in 1977 by the Indiana Covered Bridge Society, Inc. In the February 1938 "Indiana History Bulletin" Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "mp" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 9, Township 9 North, and Range 5 East, 4-1/2 miles northwest of Columbus.
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