RED COVERED BRIDGE

photo by D. G. MacLean

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The Red Covered Bridge is no longer standing … located where the old Greencastle Road, or County Road South 75 West, once crossed Big Raccoon Creek in Parke County, this double span Burr Arch Truss structure had a length of 248 feet, or 276 feet including the 14-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 16 feet wide by 13 feet high. Built in 1880 by Joseph J. Daniels, this bridge was lost 1976. Red 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 #14-61-08; however, Parke County officials probably used George Gould's identifier of #14-61-17 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 "ce" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 25, Townships 14 North, and Range 8 West, about 1 mile east of Rosedale.

• Covered Bridge Project Resources

• Regarding Covered Bridge Designations

• PCI, Covered Bridge Capital

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