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Marshall - 1917
The Marshall Covered Bridge is a single-span Burr arch-truss-covered bridge spanning Rush Creek, that was built by Joseph A. Britton & Son in 1917. The bridge is 74 ft. long, 15 ft. wide, and 14 ft. high. Built at a cost of $680, it has a load limit of 5 tons.
This bridge has nothing to do with the town of Marshall, located many miles away. It may have been named after a local resident, Mahlon Marshall. Mahlon Marshall was a Civil War veteran and was a Parke County Commissioner when the Parke County Courthouse was built. It is more likely that it was named for David W, Marshall who owned the Hill Crest Valley Farm of 132 acres nearby.
The Brazil Division of the C&EI Railroad passed near the bridge, but the railroad went bankrupt in 1921 and was scrapped in 1943.
J.A. Britton was 80 the year when the bridge was constructed, which was the next to the last of the J.A. Britton and Parke County Covered Bridges.
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978.
Located at: N39 53.005 W87 19.575 - WGCB #14-61-32
Photographed in May 2022