details

Documenting North America's past & present covered bridges

Home

Darlington, Montgomery County

If you find errors in the data please contact Bill Caswell.

If you would like to provide information on covered bridges that no longer exist from your state, or adopt a state to work on, we would certainly welcome your assistance. Please contact Trish Kane for more information.

Inventory Number: IN/14-54-01
County: Montgomery County
Township: Franklin
Town/Village: Darlington
Bridge Name: Darlington
Crosses: Sugar Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 1+
Length: 166' floor, 180' roofline
Roadway Width:
Built: 1868
Builder: Joseph Kress
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N40 06.477
Longitude: W086 47.619
See a map of the area
Topographic map of the area
Directions: 0.4 miles north of IN47 on CR625E, then 0.4 miles left on Main St. (CR500N) and 0.1 miles left on CR600E. West edge of Darlington.

Darlington Bridge, Franklin, Montgomery County, IN Built 1868
Bill Caswell Photo, July 2007

Darlington Bridge, Franklin, Montgomery County, IN Built 1868
© Lisa Plamondon

Darlington Bridge, Franklin, Montgomery County, IN Built 1868
Todd Clark Collection

Darlington Bridge, Franklin, Montgomery County, IN Built 1868
Andy Rebman Photo, October 19, 2019

Comments:
The center pier was added some time after original construction. The bridge is a single 16-panel Howe (continuous chords), but the truss members are configured as though for two spans. Early photos show a bridge without the center pier, but by 1910 the pier seems to have been installed. The bridge is known for its rectangular wood paving blocks.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 188
Clark, Todd. Information received by email, December 2014
Gould, George E.. Indiana's Covered Bridges Thru the Years, 1977
Travis, Dale. 'Indiana Covered Bridges List', updated to 11 Feb 2005, http://www.dalejtravis.com/cblist/cbin.htm (8 Mar 2005)
County History Preservation Society (no longer accessible). Covered Bridges of Indiana, 2002, http://www.countyhistory.com/coveredbridge/montgomery1.htm
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 20

The images in this collection may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and research purposes.
If the intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate permissions from the owner stated in the image's credits.