Parke County Covered Bridge Festival
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The Parke County Covered Bridge Festival is a fall festival featuring arts & crafts and food which draws over 2 million people a year. It begins on the 2nd Friday in October and lasts 10 days. The festival is countywide and involves nine different communities in Parke County, Indiana.
The festival is a celebration of the county's 30 bridges. Rockville, Indiana, is the headquarters of the festival which began in 1957 when some of the locals wanted to show people from other areas what went on in the county, make some extra money by selling some of the things they made.
