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Guilford, Dearborn County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-15-01
County: Dearborn County
Township: Miller
Town/Village: Guilford
Bridge Name: Guilford
Crosses: drainage ditch
Truss type: Burr variation
Spans: 1
Length: 104' span
Roadway Width:
Built: 1998
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 10.218
Longitude: W084 54.512
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Directions: 5.6 miles north-northwest of I-275 Exit 16 in Greendale on IN1, then just left 130' on York Ridge Rd. and left 100' into Guilford Covered Bridge Park. East edge of Guilford.

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Comments:
12-panel truss. The bridge originally crossed the East Fork of Tanner's Creek, heading west into Guilford. This single span Burr Arch Truss structure has a length of 104 feet, or 119 feet including the 7-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 17 feet 9 inches wide by 11 feet 6 inches high. Per The Dearborn County Register, November 20, 1879, a bridge at Guilford over Tanner's Creek had been built by A. M. Kennedy and Son, 120 feet in length and 108 feet between abutments. The article was very favorable of the bridge and its builders. It had been accepted by the county commissioners on Saturday, the 15th. The costs were as follows: Excavation and stonework for two abutments = $5,335; Wood work by Kennedy and Son = $1,750; and Filling for approaches by N. Vogelhesang = $285.75. In 1960 the bridge was moved off the road where it stood a number of years before it was moved to its current location, just a few hundred yards from its original site, into a beautiful park where it is still open to traffic. In the 1900s, additional structural supports were added to this bridge to sustain heavier loads that were the result of Guilford's rail commerce in conjunction with nearby coalmines. Damaged in 1993, restoration was completed in 1997 by L. L. Brown Co., and the Amos Schwartz Co. The renovations included a sprinkler system, one of only three bridges in Indiana thus equipped. There were 2 modifications to the original Kennedy design that were removed in this last restoration, one being the internal rail providing a sheltered walkway and the other being the wood block pavement that was added during a Civilian Conservation Corps project; of the 3 covered bridges that received wood block pavement only the Darlington Bridge, in Montgomery County, remains.

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