 The
Wright Covered Bridge is no longer standing … it crossed the West Fork
of White River on County Road North 900 West in Randolph County. This single
span Burr Arch Truss structure had a length of 113 feet, or 133 feet including
the 10-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 Wright Covered Bridge was located near the property of William Wright
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; it was lost October 13, 1966. George Gould
identified a World Guide number of 14-68-02 for the Wright Covered Bridge
in his book "Indiana Covered Bridges Thru the Years," published in 1977 by
the Indiana Covered Bridge Society, Inc. In the February 1941 "Indiana History
Bulletin" Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "kb"
to this Covered Timber Bridge located between Sections 23 and 24, Township
20 North, and Range 12 East, one mile southwest of Farmland.
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