WILKINS MILL COVERED BRIDGE

Photo by B. Adams

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This Wilkins Mill Covered Bridge crosses Sugar Mill Creek just northwest of Turkey Run State Park near US 41 in Parke County. This single span Burr Arch Truss structure has a length of 102 feet, or 120 feet including the 9-foot overhang at each end, is 16 feet wide and 13 feet high. Built in 1906 by William Hendricks, though no historical marker is present, the Wilkins Mill Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Wilkins Mill 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 #14-61-35; Parke County officials use the same designation ... in the February 1938 "Indiana History Bulletin" Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "sh" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 20, Township 17 North, and Range 7 West, 1/2 a mile northwest of Turkey Run State Park.

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