WINGATE COVERED BRIDGE

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The Wingate Covered Bridge, also known as the Coal Creek Covered Bridge, is no longer standing … it crossed the North Fork of Coal Creek in Sections 2 and 3, Township 20 North, and Range 6 West, north of Wingate, Montgomery County. This single span Howe Truss structure had a length of 80 feet and was built in 1886 by Isaac Meharry. The October 1976 Indiana Covered Bridge Society Newsletter provides information from Clair Meharry, a great nephew of Isaac. Mr. Meharry recalls that a worker on the bridge stopped to remove his hat and bow his head when a funeral procession went by and was promptly fired from his job for stopping work. Mr. Meharry also remembered that his Aunt Annie Meharry was the last person to cross the old covered bridge before it was torn down and the first to cross the new structure. The Wingate Covered Bridge was listed as #14-54-06 in the World Guide (according to G. Gould's 1977 list) and removed in 1937.

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• Regarding Covered Bridge Designations