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Spencerville Covered Bridge

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Area
  
less than one acre

Built by
  
Mckay, John

NRHP Reference #
  
81000010

Added to NRHP
  
2 April 1981

Built
  
1873 (1873)

Architectural style
  
Smith Type 4 Truss

Opened
  
1873

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Location
  
CR 68, at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana

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Spencerville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge located at Spencerville, Spencer Township, DeKalb County, Indiana. It was built in 1873, and spans the St. Joseph River. It is a Smith Type 4 truss bridge on concrete piers. It measures 146 feet long and topped by a gable roof and sided with board-and-batten siding. It one of only six remaining Smith trusses in Indiana.

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

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