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Photos taken by Chris Clouser

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Close-up of truss

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Lancaster Covered Bridge

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Facts

Overview: Covered bridge over Wildcat Creek on CR 500 West
Location: Carroll County, Indiana
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built ca. 1872 by the Wheelock Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1981; damaged by flooding in 2004, fully rehabilitated and reopened 2006
Builder: - Wheelock Bridge Co.
Design: Howe through truss
Dimensions: Total length: 132.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 10.6 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called: Carroll County Bridge 18
Beard Covered Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.46783, -86.61700 (decimal degrees)
40°28'04" N, 86°37'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: INNBI 0800014 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
WGCB 14-08-02 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 15869 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2005): Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 17.4 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005): 76

Update Log

May 3, 2008: New photo from Paul Brandenburg
April 25, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
April 24, 2006: Posted photos from Chris Clouser

Sources

Chris Clouser - morpar55 [at] hotmail [dot] com
Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
Paul Brandenburg - indianabridges [at] sbcglobal [dot] net

Comments

Lancaster Covered Bridge

Posted April 26, 2008, by Tom Hall (thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com)

Here are a few pictures taken shortly after the bridge was reopened. The third picture is of one of the cast iron abutments, the paint was still shiny which made it difficult to get a good shot. I thought it was cool that they managed to save the abutments, one of the best features of this bridge.

Lancaster Covered Bridge

Posted April 26, 2008, by Anonymous

Does anybody have photos of the bridge after reconstruction?

Lancaster Covered Bridge

Posted April 14, 2008, by RLB (jrbozell45 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Bridge rebuilt and open to traffic. Painted red, watch the no tresspassing signs on property adjoining the bridge.

Lancaster Covered Bridge

Posted November 5, 2006, by Dan Reitmeyer (danreitmeyer [at] charter [dot] net)

Bridge is now complete 11/06. New lower chords, new siding, roof, some upper chord replacement, and diagonals. Old cast iron abutments repaired.