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The Indian Ford Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in
Fulton County, Illinois Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 37,069. Its county seat is Lewistown, and the largest city is Canton. Fulton County comprises the Canton, IL Micropolitan Statisti ...
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one was located along County Highway 20 as spans the
Spoon River The Spoon River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 tributary of the Illinois River in west-central Illinois in the United States. The river drains largely ...
, southwest of London Mills. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on October 29, 1980, along with the eight other bridges, as one of the " Metal Highway Bridges of Fulton County." Some of the other bridges included London Mill's only other Registered Historic Place, the now demolished London Mills Bridge. Other demolished bridges include the
Elrod Bridge Elrod Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois once listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was listed from 1980 until 1995. Elrod was one of the six bridges that have been demolished out of nine sim ...
,
Duncan Mills Bridge The Duncan Mills Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. This particular one was located along west of Havana, Illinois near Lewistown. It was added to the Na ...
and
Buckeye Bridge Buckeye Bridge also known as White's Ferry Bridge was one of nine metal highway bridges in Fulton County, Illinois once listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Buckeye is one of the five bridges that have been demolished out of nine si ...
. Indian Ford Bridge is one of the fiveHAARGIS Database
Fulton County Register sites search, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 2 February 2007. bridges submitted under the Fulton County Metal Highway Bridges Multiple Property Submission to have been demolished since its inclusion on the Register.HAARGIS Database
Fulton County NRHP Sites search, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. Retrieved 2 February 2007. Indian Ford was a crossing of the Spoon River named by Job Babbit, an early Fulton County pioneer who helped survey a road from Farmington to Burlington in 1835 and named Union Township. According to Chapman's History of Fulton County (p. 886), Babbit discovered, where the road crossed the river, a trough made from an elm log that was fastened to the fork of a tree. It contained the skeletal remains of an American Indian.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Illinois This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Illinois. Bridges Notes References {{HAER list, structure=bridge *List *List Illinois Bridges Bridges A bridge is a structure bu ...


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