ROSEVILLE COVERED BRIDGE

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Actually, there have been 2 structures known as the Roseville Covered Bridge. Both structures were built on the same site crossing Big Raccoon Creek on County Road South 325 West in Parke County.

The First Roseville Covered Bridge was a Burr Arch Truss Structure constructed by the famous bridge builder Joseph J. Daniels in 1866. George Gould identified a World Guide number of 14-61-41 for the this first Roseville Covered Bridge in his book "Indiana Covered Bridges Thru the Years," published in 1977 by the Indiana Covered Bridge Society, Inc.; this bridge was lost April 10, 1910.

The Current Roseville Covered Bridge, also known as the Coxville Covered Bridge because of her location at the edge of that town, is a double span Burr Arch structure 263 feet long, or 281 feet including the 9-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 16 feet wide by 12 feet 6 inches high. Built by J. P. Van Fossen in 1910, though no historical marker is present, the current Roseville Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Roseville Covered Bridge is listed in the 1989 "World Guide to Covered Bridges," published by The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, Inc., as #14-61-09; however, the designation used by Parke County officials is #14-61-18 ... in the February 1938 "Indiana History Bulletin" Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "cw" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 15, Township 14 North, and Range 8 West, at Coxville.

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