Laughery Creek Bridge
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| Laughery Creek Bridge | |
 Laughery Creek Bridge, 1974 |
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| Crosses | Laughery Creek |
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| Locale | Dearborn County, Indiana and Ohio County, Indiana |
| Design | Tripple-intersection Pratt truss |
| Longest span | 297.5 feet (90.7 m) |
| Total length | 298.8 feet (91.1 m) |
| Width | 17 feet (5.2 m) |
| Vertical clearance | 21.4 feet (6.5 m) |
| Opening date | 1878 |
| Coordinates | |
The Laughery Creek Bridge is an abandoned truss bridge on the border of Dearborn County, Indiana and Ohio County, Indiana. It crosses Laughery Creek. This bridge was built in 1878. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company, a prolific late 1800s bridge company, constructed the bridge. The bridge is seated on stone abutments. The deck surface is not original and is currently concrete. The bridge, nearly 300 feet in length, is a single span pin connected triple intersection Pratt through truss, and is the only example in the world of this truss type. The name bridge's nickname, "Triple Whipple Bridge" is a play on words. The double-intersection Pratt, which was called the Whipple truss configuration, was a far more common variation of the standard Pratt configuration. Since the Laughery Creek Bridge's members have three intersections instead of two, this gives rise to the "Triple Whipple" name. This bridge is currently on the National Register of Historic Places.
[edit] External links
- "Triple Whipple" by the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana
- "Triple Whipple Bridge" by Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere
- Survey number HAER IN-16 - Laughery Creek Bridge, Spanning Laughery Creek, Aurora vicinity, Dearborn County, IN
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