Finally!
Well it has been “purtin near” 3
months since my last post. That is mainly because I messed up my
account password or something just enough to keep me from being able
to edit my very own blog. Well thanks to my nephew Ben for straightening it all
out. They were here earlier this month for a short visit, and as
they were leaving he volunteered to help get it straightened out.
Over the next 24 hrs. or so Ben was able to fix my problem. I owe
you a big thanks, Ben. And to Amanda for putting up with my
“issues”! Sorry it has taken so long for me to take advantage of
the fix. Well I seemed to have lost some of the drawing photo files
that I was getting ready to post- hence the further delay. I know some of you out there have been waiting on pins and needles!
“1838”
Another drawing from our trip over
Labor Day. Brown County State Park, in central Indiana. Beautiful
place and lots of stuff like this to draw. Yes this was on the
road, actually our destination, where we found the village by the
name of Gnaw Bone. I had not “googled” the history of this
bridge until I first wrote this paragraph on 10/29/13 .
I would suppose it has been partially rebuilt- at least for the
skin- more than once in its 175 years. The style, the Burr arch
truss, was apparently patented in 1817 according to Carole Rifkind in
“A Field Guide to American Architecture”. You can see some of
the arch in this drawing. (Well at least you could if I had a better photographer!) This is similar to other bridges of the
period. Here is a link to a technical drawing of another bridge
using the same system:
and
another to a description of this bridge with more details, which
answers some of the questions regarding its history. I had wondered
at the time if it had been moved to this site, because I could not
imagine a 2 lane bridge ever being needed at this site. Not sure yet
where it came from. So here is the other
link bridgehunter.com/in/brown/ramp-creek/
These links will help you get a feel for the history.
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