Moscow Covered Bridge

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Moscow Covered Bridge | nrhp_type = | image = Moscow Covered Bridge, southern side.jpg | caption = Southern side of the reconstructed bridge | location = County Roads 625W and 875S at Moscow, Indiana | coordinates = {{coord|39|29|6|N|85|33|17|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Indiana#USA | built = 1886 | builder = Emmett L. Kennedy | architecture = two Burr Arch Trusses | added = February 2, 1983 | area = less than one acre | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000191|title=Kennedy, A. M., House and Covered Bridges of Rush County TR}} | refnum = 83000096<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}

The '''Moscow Covered Bridge''' is a historic covered bridge located at Moscow, Indiana, a small unincorporated town in Rush County, Indiana. It is of Burr Arch construction, 334 feet (102 m) long in two spans over Big Flat Rock River in It is the third longest covered bridge in the state.<ref name="SHAARD">{{cite web| url = https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/welcome.html| title = Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) | publisher = Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology | format = Searchable database| accessdate = 2016-06-01}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url =https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/1d4df/N/Rush_CO_Covered_Bridge_HD.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: A. M. Kennedy House and Covered Bridges of Rush County| accessdate = 2016-06-01| author=Phil McMullan| format = PDF| date=January 1980}} and Accompanying photographs.</ref>{{rp|2, 13}}

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983, as part of a multiple property submission covering six bridges built by the Kennedy family firm.<ref name="nris"/>

==History==

The bridge was originally constructed in 1886 by Emmett L. Kennedy of the Kennedy family firm that was responsible for many of Indiana's covered bridges. The Moscow bridge came to be the defining characteristic of the small community of Moscow, even providing the theme of an annual community festival. It was a devastating loss to the community when on June 3, 2008, a tornado destroyed the bridge and dropped its remnants into the valley of the Big Flatrock River.<ref name="SHAARD"/><ref name=feb25-2011-version>{{cite web|url=http://moscowbridge.com/ |title=Moscow Bridge.Com, as archived February 25, 2011 in the Wayback machine |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225145704/http://moscowbridge.com/ |archivedate=February 25, 2011 }}</ref> A website was used to solicit donations for reconstruction.

Local and state officials soon decided to rebuild the bridge. State prison inmates were used to retrieve salvageable material from the old bridge from the river bed for reuse. The Dan McCollum and Sons firm was hired to manage the reconstruction of the bridge which was dedicated and reopened in September 2010.

Per the MoscowBridge.Com website, the reconstructed bridge "consists of over 40% timbers from the old bridge. The new bridge is built as a E. L. Kennedy designed and engineered bridge. It has the same look as the bridge destroyed June 3, 2008."<ref name=feb25-2011-version/>

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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120426054844/http://www.moscowbridge.com/ Official site]

Category:Bridges completed in 1886 Category:Bridges completed in 2010 Category:Wooden bridges in Indiana Category:Bridges in Rush County, Indiana Category:Tourist attractions in Rush County, Indiana Category:Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Category:National Register of Historic Places in Rush County, Indiana Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Category:Burr Truss bridges in the United States