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Inventory Number: IL/13-01-03x
County: Adams County
Township: Lima
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Timber
Crosses: Bear Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 180'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1851
Builder:
When Lost: Apr 1932
Cause: Burned
Latitude: N40 08.316
Longitude: W091 22.110
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Directions: 8 miles south of Lima.

Timber Bridge, Lima, Adams County, IL Built 1851 Burned 1932 or 1933
A.G. Kistler Photo, 1930


Timber Bridge, Lima, Adams County, IL Built 1851 Burned 1932 or 1933
A.G. Kistler Photo, 1930

Comments:
Per The Palmyra Spectator, April 27, 1932, "OLD HISTORIC BRIDGE DESTROYED ---- A covered bridge which spanned Bear Creek, near Lima, Ill., was destroyed by fire last week, the flames thought to have originated from a camp fire probably left by tramps. Since the completion of new steel and concrete bridge over the stream the old structure had not been used except as a shelter for tramps traveling through that section, and no other explanation for the origin of the fire has been found. The structure was eighty years old and was one of the last of the many wooden bridge's spanning the streams in the middle west."
Sources:
The Palmyra Spectator, April 27, 1932, page 10.
Oscar L. Dittmer, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Jan., 1928), pp. 594-597
Eaton, Thelma. The Covered Bridges of Illinois, 1968, page 179

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