Bridges of Rush County
10/21/07 08:57 AM | Up Chucks
Offutts
First stop on the whirl wind tour of Rush Counties in use Covered Bridges
So I went to bed with a week old plan. The plan was to go to Moscow Indiana to find the two tier bridge I heard about last Sunday. Well I'm not married to a 'net geek for nothing, so I went to google and typed in 'Covered Bridges Rush County Indiana' and I found a few sites. The best one, bridge hunter.com, gave me five in Rush county. Five. Even better, the site gives you the GPS coordinates which you can plug into Google, and if you have a google account, you can build your own custom maps. Here I wish to apologize to anybody using dial-up to view these pages, this is a phone connection colossus!

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Norris Ford
Bridge number two
I pre-mapped my route, starting at Washington square, I headed east to Charlottesville, then took Carthage Rd to Carthage (an obvious choice I might add) from there to Offutt's Bridge, conveniently located on Offutt Bridge Rd. from there it was a straight shot east again to Norris Ford Covered Bridge, we then backtracked a half mile and headed S/W on Ft.-Wayne Rd to Smith Ford Covered Bridge. Back again to Ft.-Wayne Rd, and into Rushville for a Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich at Hardee's, then S. on IN-3 to W. 600S which winds around and becomes W. 650 S. and runs right next to the Forsythe Mill Covered Bridge. Staying on W.650 s, which winds around some more and becomes S. 500 W, you continue south until you see Skating Rink Rd. a right turn has you going west then diagonally until you see the Moscow Bridge, which is the largest of these 5 bridges all built by the Kennedy's of Rush County between 1886 and 1916. I choose to take STRD-244 to Michigan Rd into Shelbyville, and IN-9 back to US 52 and then home. The trip took about 5 1/2 hours including restroom and restaurant stops, plus time for me to take 124 photos. It was an excellent way to put 125 miles on the car and find more "buried" treasure in the State of my birth and habitation. Plus I get to add Moscow and Rushville to my list of visited Indiana towns.
Smith Ford
Bridge number three
Forsythe
Bridge number four
Moscow
The final Bridge In Moscow.
Chuck Pace © 2007
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