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Richland Creek or Plummer, Greene County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-28-01
County: Greene County
Township: Taylor
Town/Village: Bloomfield
Bridge Name: Richland Creek or Plummer
Crosses: Plummer/Richland Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 113'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1883
Builder: Archibald M. Kennedy & Sons
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N38 59.583
Longitude: W086 56.271
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Directions: 0.4 miles south of IN54 in Bloomfield on US231, then 0.2 miles right on Mill St., then 2.2 miles left on Seminary St. (becomes CR25E then Baseline Rd.) to the bridge. South of Bloomfield.

Richland Creek or Plummer Bridge, Taylor, Greene County, IN Built 1889
© Lisa Plamondon

Richland Creek or Plummer Bridge, Taylor, Greene County, IN Built 1889
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, November 15, 2019

Richland Creek or Plummer Bridge, Taylor, Greene County, IN Built 1889
Bill Caswell Collection

Comments:
35-7N-5W. 12-panel truss. Countyhistory.com lists the length as 100 feet, or 120 feet including the 10-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 14 feet wide by 13 feet high. The bridge was closed in 1957 and reopened in 1967 after the foundation and roof were rehabilitated; closed again in 1990, it was opened once more in 1998 after extensive structural renovation that including replacement of timbers. The Richland Creek Covered Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 36
Gould, George E.. Indiana's Covered Bridges Thru the Years, 1977
County History Preservation Society (no longer accessible). Covered Bridges of Indiana, 2002, http://www.countyhistory.com/coveredbridge/greene1.htm
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 18

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