Moscow Covered Bridge
Rush County, Orange Township, in Moscow. Built 1886 (rebuilt 2010), 334 ft, two spans — Indiana's 3rd-longest covered bridge. Destroyed by 2008 tornado, rebuilt as near-exact replica.
The Moscow Covered Bridge crosses the Big Flat Rock River at County Roads 625W and 875S in the unincorporated community of Moscow, Orange Township, Rush County. Originally built in 1886 by Emmett L. Kennedy, it was a two-span, 334-foot Burr Arch structure — the third-longest covered bridge in Indiana — and served as the defining landmark of Moscow, inspiring an annual community festival. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 2, 1983, alongside four other Rush County spans in the Kennedy family thematic nomination. On June 3, 2008, an EF3 tornado tore through Moscow and destroyed the bridge, dropping its timbers into the river valley — a devastating loss for the small community. Local and state officials organized a rebuilding effort; Indiana Department of Correction inmates helped recover salvageable timber from the riverbed, and the Dan McCollum and Sons firm led the reconstruction, engineered to replicate Kennedy's original Burr Arch design. The rebuilt bridge, incorporating more than 40 percent of the original salvaged timbers alongside new wood, was dedicated and reopened to the public in September 2010. Today it stands as a near-exact replica of the historic span, open and functioning, and remains one of Indiana's most photographed covered bridges.
