Ceylon Covered Bridge
Adams County, Wabash Township, near Ceylon/Geneva. Built 1879, 126 ft. long. The only covered bridge remaining over the Wabash River in Indiana.
The Ceylon Covered Bridge spans the Wabash River in Wabash Township, Adams County, near the town of Ceylon and the Limberlost State Historic Site outside Geneva. Built in 1879 by the Smith Bridge Company of Toledo, Ohio (some older county histories cite an earlier 1860s date, though 1879 is the generally accepted construction year), the bridge uses a Howe through-truss design and stretches roughly 126-130 feet across the river on stone abutments. It holds particular distinction as the only surviving covered bridge crossing the main channel of the Wabash River anywhere in Indiana. The bridge carried vehicle traffic on County Road 900 South for nearly a century before being closed to automobiles in 1974; it had previously been rehabilitated in 1963. Since its closure to vehicles, it has remained open as a pedestrian crossing near Limberlost Park, popular with anglers, photographers, and local history enthusiasts, and it has weathered periodic Wabash River flooding over the decades. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, cementing its status as a protected engineering and cultural landmark of Adams County.
