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Traders Point or Fishback Creek (original location), Marion County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-49-07
County: Marion County
Township: Pike
Town/Village: Traders Point
Bridge Name: Traders Point or Fishback Creek (original location)
Crosses: Fishback Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 1
Length: 88'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1880
Builder: Josiah Durfee
When Lost: 1960
Cause: Moved
Latitude: N39 54.582
Longitude: W086 18.988
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: West 86th Street about 0.1 miles west of its intersection with Lafayette Road in the Traders Point section of Indianapolis.

Traders Point Bridge (relocated location), Indianapolis, IN Built 1880
© Lisa Plamondon

Traders Point Bridge (relocated location), Indianapolis, IN Built 1880
Dale J. Travis Photo

Traders Point or D.W. Brown Bridge (original location), Traders Point, Marion County, IN Built 1880 Moved 1960
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Traders Point or D.W. Brown Bridge (original location), Traders Point, Marion County, IN Built 1880 Moved 1960
Robert Finnegan Photo, Richard Donovan/Trish Kane Collection

Traders Point Bridge (relocated location), Indianapolis, IN Built 1880
Andy Rebman Photo, Fall 2014

Comments:
The bridge was condemned in 1959. Dewitt Brown bought it and had it moved from its location over Fishback Creek in the Traders Point section of Indianapolis about 0.6 miles down West 86th Street to his property in 1960 when the new bridge across the creek was to be built. 8-panel truss.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 73
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/marion1.htm
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 20

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