The 1898 Indian Creek Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in Monroe County, West Virginia. Indian Creek Bridge is owned by the Monroe County Historical Society and was originally built in 1898 by Ray and Oscar Weikel. The bridge is 49.25 feet long and 11.5 feet wide.  The bridge was restored by Hoke Brothers Construction, Inc. of Union, West Virginia in 2000 at a cost of $334,446. It is open to pedestrians and is said to be one of the most photographed bridges in West Virginia.

Three wooden carved signs inside the bridge describe:  "When white settlers first came to this area prior to 1750, no Indians were permanent residents at that time.  It was the hunting grounds of the Shawnee Indians, who resided along the Ohio River and came here to hunt, over trails along the Kanawha and New Rivers, then up Indian Creek to this area.  The last permanent residents were the Cherokee Indians who were driven south of New River by the Iroquois.  Many bloody battles were fought here.  During an Indian uprising in 1763 known as "Pontiac's War," all white settlers who were not killed or captured fled back east of the Appalachians, returning in about a  decade building stockade forts, among which were "Cooks Fort" in 1771 on Indian Creek (9 miles west of the bridge) and "Woods Fort" on Rick Creek in 1773, (15 miles southwest of the bridge).

After repeated Indian attacks on the settlers volunteers from these forts joined the Fincastle Brigade and marched to Fort Union (now Lewisburg).  There they joined the Colonial troops under the command of Col. Andrew Lewis.  Under his command, they marched to Point Pleasant on the Ohio and engaged the Shawnees, Delawares, Mingoes, and Ottawas under the leadership of Chief Cornstalk, in a day-long battle fought on October 10, 1774.  At the end of the day, the Indians withdrew crossing back north of the Ohio River.  The treaty that followed gave the land south of the Ohio River to the white man.

Seneca Trail or Warriors Path - Iroquois warriors went down the mountain ridges as far as the Carolinas, back and forth went the raiding parties until their moccasin feet had hardened a trance long known as the Seneca Trail or "Warriors Path."  The Cherokees were pushed south of the New River but resisted stoutly and were not reduced to subjection as were the Delawares."

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Located at:  N37 32.810    W80 34.535    -    WGCB #48-32-02

Photographed in September 2021