JESSUP COVERED BRIDGE

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The Jessup Covered Bridge is no longer standing … it originally crossed Little Raccoon Creek on the Rosedale Catlin Road in Parke County. This single span Burr Arch Truss structure had a length of 155 feet, or 175 feet including the 10-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 16 feet wide by 13 feet high. Built in 1910 by J. P. Van Fossen, the bridge was eventually bypassed and in 1970 and then moved to the site of the Adams Covered Bridge, which had collapsed during a flood in 1969. The Jessup Covered Bridge was lost in 1989 when strong winds caused a large tree to fall on it, breaking its arches causing it to collapse into the creek where it floated under the Sanatorium Covered Bridge, finally jamming downstream near the U.S. 36 Bridge. Jessup Covered Bridge was listed in the 1972 "World Guide to Covered Bridges," published by The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, Inc., as #14-61-06; however, Parke County officials probably used George Gould's identifier of #14-61-15 as listed 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 "ca" to this Covered Timber Bridge located (original) between Sections 13 and 14, Township 14 North, and Range 8 West, just north of Jessup.

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• PCI, Covered Bridge Capital

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