County commissioners ordered (1885) as link across Little Vermillion River at Newport & Quaker Point Free Gravel Road. Built 1885 by Joseph J. Daniels, Rockville: Burr truss design, 180 foot span, sandstone abutments. Floor replaced, 1984. Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1994.

Marker is on County Road 50 (AKA: Hopkins Street) 0.6 miles from Indiana Route 63, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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