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Lamb's Creek Bridge, Spanning Lamb's Creek at Old State Road 67 West, Martinsville, Morgan County, IN

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Lamb's Creek Bridge, Spanning Lamb's Creek at Old State Road 67 West, Martinsville, Morgan County, IN

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Summary

Significance: The Lamb's Creek Bridge is a rare surviving example of a Pratt through truss bridge, the most common type of metal bridge constructed in Indiana during the late nineteenth-century. It is an excellent example of the work of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company, which supplied more Pratt through trusses to the state than any other Ohio company.
Survey number: HAER IN-102

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Pluhar, Jessica, photographer
Stuttgen, Joanne Raetz, historian
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Location

Martinsville (Ind.)39.40175, -86.51722
Google Map of 39.401748, -86.51722
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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