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Cox Ford, Parke County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-61-34
Parke County Number: PC-36
County: Parke County
Township: Penn
Town/Village: Marshall
Bridge Name: Cox Ford
Crosses: Sugar Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 176' floor, 192' roofline
Roadway Width:
Built: 1913
Builder: Joseph A. Britton
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 53.126
Longitude: W087 13.422
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Directions: 0.7 miles west jct US41 on IN47, then 0.6 miles left on Coxford Rd. 1/2 mile west of Turkey Run State Park.

Cox Ford Bridge, Penn, Parke County, IN Built 1913
© Lisa Plamondon

Cox Ford Bridge, Penn, Parke County, IN Built 1913
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Cox Ford Bridge, Penn, Parke County, IN Built 1913
Dale J. Travis Photo

Cox Ford Bridge, Penn, Parke County, IN Built 1913
Traugott Keller Photograph, September 2, 1966, NSPCB Archives

Cox Ford Bridge, Penn, Parke County, IN Built 1913
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, November 14, 2019

Comments:
This covered bridge was built to replace an iron bridge lost during the great 1913 flood. The Burr arches in this bridge Armiesburg bridge constructed 60 years earlier and also lost in that 1913 flood. Those arches may have been sawn by Charlton Britton, father of the bridge’s builder, Joseph A. Britton.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 184
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/coxford.htm
Rau, Harold. A Guide to the Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana, 2016, pages 24-25
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 25

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