Harry Evans Covered Bridge

The Harry Evans Covered Bridge was built in 1908 by Joseph A. Britton, spanning Rock Run, historically known as Iron Run, about half a mile northwest of the small community of Coxville. Unlike many of Britton's other Parke County bridges, this single-span Burr Arch Truss structure lacks his signature arched portal, instead featuring a shallower, semi-arched entrance more typical of the "Hendricks portal" style used elsewhere in the county, a detail that has long interested covered-bridge historians. The bridge takes its name from Harry Evans, who owned land alongside the creek, though local lore has occasionally attributed the name to a different Evans family living further down the valley. The surrounding hills were once dotted with small, often dangerous coal mines that helped drive the local economy in the early twentieth century. The bridge continues to carry County Road 325 West across Rock Run under a posted six-ton load limit. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 22, 1978, as part of the Parke County Covered Bridges Multiple Property Submission, and remains, along with its near-twin the Zacke Cox Covered Bridge a few miles north, one of the more remote and lightly visited crossings on the county's touring routes.