North Manchester Covered Bridge

North Manchester Covered Bridge spans the Eel River in North Manchester, Indiana, and was built in 1872 by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio. It is a Smith Type 4 Truss, a patented design tied to 19th-century American bridge building. Measuring 150 feet long and 18 feet wide, its board-and-batten siding gives it the enclosed form typical of covered bridges. The bridge reflects both practical engineering and Indiana’s regional tradition of wooden river crossings. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, it survives as part of the state’s covered-bridge heritage and the era of specialized timber bridge construction.

North Manchester, Indiana · United States