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The Cox Ford Covered Bridge crosses Sugar Creek along the west edge of Turkey Run State Park, Parke County. This single span Burr Arch truss structure has a length of 176 feet, or 192 feet including the 8-foot overhang at each end, with a portal clearance 16 feet wide by 13 feet in height. Built in 1913 by Joseph A. Britton, the Cox Ford Covered Bridge has a rather unique distinction as it was built to replace a steel bridge lost in the 1913 flood; the arches used to construction this structure were from the Armiesburg Covered Bridge, built 60 years earlier and also washed out during the 1913 flood.
During the depression, the Cox Ford Covered Bridge received a new coat of paint that was applied by a W.P.A. group, and though no historical marker is present, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is listed in the 1989 World Guide to Covered Bridges, published by The National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, Inc., as #14-61-34; however, the designation used by Parke County officials is #14-61-36[2] ... in the February 1938 Indiana History Bulletin, Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation 'sg' to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 28, Township 17 North, and Range 7 West, about 1/2 a mile west of Turkey Run State Park.[3]
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