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Potter's, Hamilton County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-29-01
County: Hamilton County
Township: Noblesville
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Potter's
Crosses: White River
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 2
Length: 259' floor, 265' roofline
Roadway Width:
Built: 1871
Builder: Josiah Durfee & Co.
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 04.368
Longitude: W086 00.027
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Directions: 1.0 miles west of jct IN37 on IN32/38, then right 2.0 miles on N 10th St. (becomes Allisonville Rd.) to the bridge on the left in Potter's Bridge Park.

Potter's Bridge, Noblesville, IN Built 1871
© Lisa Plamondon

Potter's Bridge, Noblesville, IN Built 1871
Dale J. Travis Photo

Potter's Bridge, Noblesville, Hamilton County, IN Built 1871
John V. Pontiere Jr Photo, Richard Donovan/Trish

Comments:
19-19N-5E. Closed, restored 1999. 2 lane. The contract to build the Potter's Ford bridge was awarded to Josiah Durfee & Co. at a special session of the board on 17-Oct-1870 for a bid of $13,000. The bridge was to be a Howe truss of 246 feet with stone abutments and one stone pier. The bridge was accepted at a special session April 11, 1871 and an additional $316.66 for extras was allowed. Per The Noblesville Ledger, March 15, 1871, "One and a half miles above town is the new bridge, built last fall and winter by the county, it is completed except to the extent of a few hundred dollars worth of work, which will be completed this spring, it is about two hundred and sixty feet in length, with stone piers, and will cost when completed about fourteen thousand dollars." Per The Noblesville Ledger, June 18, 1875, "The Potter's ford bridge is the most substantial in the County. It was completed in 1871, Durfee, Giger and Williams being the contractors."

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 190
Kingman Brothers, History of Hamilton County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches…, Chicago, 1880.
The Noblesville Ledger, March 15, 1871, p.1.
The Noblesville Ledger, June 18, 1875, p.2.
Gould, George E.. Indiana's Covered Bridges Thru the Years, 1977
Travis, Dale. 'Indiana Covered Bridges List', updated to 11 Feb 2005, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbin.htm (8 Mar 2005)
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 18

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