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Covered Bridge Festival
Last week we took our vacation at the Covered Bridge Festival in Parke county Indiana. Here are a few pics. Some are still in use and you can still drive through them.
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That is a classic. I have never done all of the bridges in parke county but I have done some good number of them.
when i was growing up in putnam county which is near parke, there were about seven there i think, all still in service. kids burned a couple of them. tom W
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More for the flea markets in the area then anything though.
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walk across.. pfft
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My parents just got back from the festival. I never heard of such a concentration of covered bridges.
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A good friend of mine just passed away this Jan. He was 84. His grandfather had alot to do with some of the design and building of a few bridges in Rush Co. You guys may know them as the Smith Bridge (after my friends grandfather) or the Kennendy Bridge located in Rush Co. I know many farmers would like to see them gone as they create a problem getting big equip. thru.
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great pics - thanks for sharing. We have many covered bridges still in use here in Lancaster, PA and I always go out of my way to check them out. Beautiful design/form, I wish more could be preserved but the cost is sometimes prohibitive.....and as somebody mentioned, wider bridges with higher load capacities are often needed (or perceived to be needed).
I'm also a bridge inspector in an adjacent county (York) but unfortunately all of the covered bridges got wiped out in the Agnes flooding...so I've never been able to inspect one.
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