 The
Emmetsville Covered Bridge is no longer standing … it crossed the
Mississinewa just north of Brinckley on or near County Road North 700 West
in Randolph County. This single Burr Arch Truss structure had a length of
124 feet, or 140 feet including the 8-foot overhang at each end, with a portal
clearance 16 feet wide by 13 feet high. This structure was one of 3 bridges
built in Randolph County during 1883 by Archibald M. Kennedy & Sons at
a cost of "eighteen dollars per lineal foot measuring the upper chord" (not
including the cost of abutments). The Emmetsville Covered Bridge was located
near the property of Luther Moorman and all timbers were of white pine except
where they came in contact with stone and that was of oak; the double floors
were constructed from two inch oak lined with one inch oak and spiked; the
siding was split poplar; and the 18 inch shingles were pine. The Emmetsville
Covered Bridge was damaged beyond use on May 5, 1973, and removed sometime
after 1977; it was listed in the 1972 "World Guide to Covered Bridges," published
by The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, Inc., as
#14-68-01 ... in the February 1941 "Indiana History Bulletin" Robert B. Yule
and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "bk" to this Covered Timber
Bridge located where Sections 7, 8 17 and 18 join, Township 21 North, Ranges
13 and 13 East, about 4 miles west of Ridgeville.
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