The Adams Covered Bridge was east of
Rockville, Indiana
Rockville is a town in Adams Township, Parke County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,607 at the 2010 census. The town is the county seat of Parke County. It is known as "The Covered Bridge Capital of the World".
History
Rockv ...
. The single-span
Burr Arch covered bridge structure was built by Adams Construction in 1907 and destroyed by flood in 1969.
History
Philip Adams, who was an
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
veteran of the
War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...
, purchased 80 acres of land in Parke County in 1835. His son, Harvey Adams, continued to farm and by 1893 had acquired 2300 acres in Parke County. By 1959 Roy Adams still owned over 1500 acres and as late as 1990 Adams Farms Inc. owned the same acreage. The bridge was built on land owned by the Adams Family.
The bridge got its "Ray's Bridge" name from the fact that the crossing had earlier been called Ray's Ford from the grist mill that Mr. Ray owned upstream from the ford.
Even though the Adams Construction was awarded the contract to build the bridge apparently they subcontracted the Frankfort Construction Company to actually build it. J.P. Van Fossen, in turn, was the onsite foreman for the project.
After the bridge was destroyed in 1969 the
Jessup Covered Bridge
The Jessup Covered Bridge was north of Jessup, Indiana. The single-span Burr Arch covered bridge structure was built by the Jefferson P. Van Fossen in 1910 and destroyed by flood in 1989.
History
Construction
Originally the main road to Rock ...
was moved to replace it. This bridge was also destroyed by a flood in 1989 when it washed downstream under the
State Sanitorium Covered Bridge and then over the
U.S. 36 concrete bridge at the
Plank Road Covered Bridge site.
See also
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Parke County Covered Bridges The covered bridges of Parke County are well-known tourist attractions in Parke County, Indiana, United States, which touts itself as the "Covered Bridge Capital of the World". The county claims to have more covered bridges than any other county in ...
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Parke County Covered Bridge Festival
References
{{Parke county lost covered bridges
Former covered bridges in Parke County, Indiana
Bridges completed in 1907
Wooden bridges in Indiana
Burr Truss bridges in the United States