SR 650, Rushville, Indiana. County/parish: Rush.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 02, 1983. NRIS 83000094.
Part of Kennedy, A. M., House and Covered Bridges of Rush County TR (NRIS 64000191).
1 contributing structure.
Forsythe Covered Bridge, also known as Forsythe Mill Bridge, is a historic covered bridge located near Rushville, Indiana and/or Gowdy, in Orange Township, Rush County, Indiana. It was built in 1888 by Emmett L. Kennedy. It is a Burr Arch bridge, 196 feet (60 m) long over the Big Flat Rock River. The bridge has rounded arch portals and decorative scrollwork that are signatures of the Kennedy firm.
The bridge 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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132002038