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Ramp Creek, Putnam County

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Inventory Number: IN/14-67-21x
County: Putnam County
Township: Franklin
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Bridge Name: Ramp Creek
Crosses: Ramp Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 96'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1838
Builder: Henry Wolf
When Lost: 1932
Cause: Moved
Latitude: N39 48.10
Longitude: W086 53.78
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Directions: 19-16N-4W.

Ramp Creek Bridge, Putnam County, IN Built 1838 Moved 1932
M.L. Davies Collection, c1940, Courtesy County History Preservation Society

Comments:
The bridge was moved to its present setting in 1932 from Putnam County, where it crossed Ramp Creek just south of Fincastle on what was known as the New Albany-Lafayette or Jeffersonville-Crawfordsville Turnpike, which later became State Road 43 and later still became US 231. This single span Burr Arch Truss structure, has a length of 96 feet, or 110 feet including the 7-foot overhang at each end; both lanes are 11 feet wide and 12 feet high. Built in 1838 by Henry Wolf, with Chillion Johnson as foreman, the bridge was financed by the same internal improvement act of 1836 that began canal construction in Indiana. This information is credited to Sara Walthery.

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