Facts
- Overview
- Three-span covered bridge over Wildcat Creek on CR 50 East
- Location
- Carroll County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1872 by the Wheelock Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1990
- Builder
- - Wheelock Bridge Co.
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 71.8 ft.
Total length: 144.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Carroll County Bridge 39
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.48383, -86.51200 (decimal degrees)
40°29'02" N, 86°30'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/541360/4481574 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Rossville
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 0800030 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
NRHP 95001537 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 14-08-01 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 15865 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 17.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 88
Update Log
- July 9, 2008: Updated by Paul Brandenburg
- June 26, 2008: Updated by Paul Brandenburg
- May 3, 2008: Updated by Paul Brandenburg: added county bridge number
- April 25, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- October 16, 2006: Posted photo from Tom Hall
Sources
- Tom Hall - thomas [dot] hall [at] ffni [dot] com
- HAER IN-29 - Adams Mill Bridge, Spanning Wildcat Creek at County Road 50, Cutler, Carroll County, IN
- Dale Travis Covered Bridge List
- Paul Brandenburg - indianabridges [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Comments
Adams Mill Covered Bridge
Summer 08
Adams Mill Covered Bridge
Bridge open to vehicles. Pull off parkinig on each end.
On south pull off follow wooden steps down to groomed path to creek for some great views of bridge and sand bluffs boardering the opposite bank. 1/4 mile south is Adams Mill, open weekends.Bridge,picnic grounds and mill nicely restored. Parking lot across road leads to dam and mill pond
Adams Mill Covered Bridge
I don't know if or when this bridge was closed again within the last year after driving across in March(2007). All I know is that for awhile the Adams Mill Bridge looked way beyond repair until 1999 when it was restored extensively. Then a few years ago an oversized truck tore off the portal which had to be rebuilt. I just don't know if it was closed again or why.