Potter's Covered Bridge
Hamilton County, Noblesville Township, near Noblesville. Built 1871, 259 ft. long. Howe truss over the West Fork White River; the county's only surviving covered bridge.
Potter's Covered Bridge, also known as Potter's Ford Bridge, was built in 1870-1871 by local contractor Josiah Durfee, replacing an earlier bridge commissioned in 1860 by the county and named for landowner William Potter. Its Howe truss design, using both wood compression members and adjustable iron tension rods, makes it one of only 22 Howe truss covered bridges surviving in Indiana and the ninth-oldest covered bridge still standing in the state. The bridge spans the West Fork of the White River just north of Noblesville in Hamilton County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 and fully restored in 1999, when it was rededicated as the centerpiece of the newly opened 126-acre Potter's Bridge Park. Today it connects to the White River Greenway Trail, remains open to pedestrian traffic, and is the only surviving covered bridge in Hamilton County, drawing visitors for fishing, canoe launches, and photography along the river.
