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Nevins, Parke County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-61-05
Parke County Number: PC-14
County: Parke County
Township: Raccoon
Town/Village: Catlin
Bridge Name: Nevins
Crosses: Little Raccoon Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 155' floor, 168' roofline
Roadway Width:
Built: 1920
Builder: Joseph A. Britton & Eugene Britton
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 41.083
Longitude: W087 12.741
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.4 miles east of US41 in Rockville on US36, then right 4.9 miles on Market St. (becomes Catlin Rd.), then left 1.3 miles on CRE500S, and right 0.7 miles on CR130E. East-southeast of Catlin.

Nevins Bridge, Raccoon, Parke County, IN Built 1920
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, November 14, 2019

Nevins Bridge, Raccoon, Parke County, IN Built 1920
Dale J. Travis Photo

Nevins Bridge, Raccoon, Parke County, IN Built 1920
Todd Clark Collection

Nevins Bridge, Raccoon, Parke County, IN Built 1920
Traugott Keller Photograph, September 1, 1966, NSPCB Archives

Nevins Bridge, Raccoon, Parke County, IN Built 1920
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, November 14, 2019

Comments:
16-panel truss. The bridge was named for Thomas Levi Nevins who owned a nearby mill. Joseph Britton built it with his son Eugene. It was Joseph Britton’s last project at age 83. It is said that the arches used in the bridge took 80 days to get to the proper shape.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 127
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/parke/nevins.htm
County History Preservation Society (no longer accessible). Covered Bridges of Indiana, 2002, http://www.countyhistory.com/coveredbridge/parke/neet.htm
Rau, Harold. A Guide to the Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana, 2016, pages 50-51
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 21

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