HIGH BRIDGE PARK COVERED BRIDGE

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The High Bridge Park Covered Bridge, also known as the the Skeen or Watson's Ford Covered Bridge, is no longer standing … it crossed Laughery Creek in Ripley County. This Howe Truss structure had a length of 116 feet, or 126 feet including the 5-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 16 feet wide by 13 feet 6 inches high. Built in 1884 by Thomas A. Hardman. and was lost in 1963. During World Was II, armed guards patrolled the nearby railroad trestle; local residents believe a bridge crossing this point at an earlier date was destroyed during the Civil War by Morgan's Raiders. George Gould identified a World Guide number of 14-69-01 for this 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 "ds" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 13, Township 8 North, and Range 11 East, about 2 miles east of Osgood.

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