details

Documenting North America's past & present covered bridges

Home

Mansfield, Parke 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/14-61-20
Parke County Number: PC-05
County: Parke County
Township: Jackson
Town/Village: Mansfield
Bridge Name: Mansfield
Crosses: Big Raccoon Creek
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 2
Length: 247' floor, 279' roofline
Roadway Width:
Built: 1867
Builder: Joseph J. Daniels
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N39 40.537
Longitude: W087 06.108
See a map of the area
Topographic map of the area
Directions: In the center of Mansfield 0.1 miles east of IN59 on Martin Rd. off Mansfield / Mill Rd. next to the Mansfield Mall.

Mansfield Bridge, Jackson, Parke County, IN Built 1867
Richard Donovan / Trish Kane Collection

Mansfield Bridge, Jackson, Parke County, IN Built 1867
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, November 14, 2019

Mansfield Bridge, Jackson, Parke County, IN Built 1867
Todd Clark Collection

Mansfield Bridge, Jackson, Parke County, IN Built 1867
Traugott Keller Photograph, September 1, 1966, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
[8-14N-6W]. One month after completing the Roseville Bridge, J.J. Daniels was asked to draw up plans for the bridge at Mansfield. He was awarded the contract for the bridge on December 7, 1866 and the county commissioners inspected the completed structure on September 4, 1867. The bridge underwent extensive repair work in 1980.

Sources:
Ketcham, Bryan E.. Covered Bridges on the Byways of Indiana, 1949, page 117
Gould, George E.. Indiana's Covered Bridges Thru the Years, 1977
County History Preservation Society (no longer accessible). Covered Bridges of Indiana, 2002, http://www.countyhistory.com/coveredbridge/parke/mansfield.htm
Rau, Harold. A Guide to the Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana, 2016, pags 34-35
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 23