Stockheughter Covered Bridge
Franklin County, Ray Township, near Enochsburg. Built 1891, ~102 ft. long. Howe truss over Salt Creek; one of Franklin County's two surviving covered bridges, open under a 3-ton weight limit.
Stockheughter Covered Bridge, also called the Enochsburg Bridge and officially Franklin County Bridge No. 73, was built in 1891 by George Hotel and Company, a local firm run by an Oldenburg sawmill owner, for a contracted price of $2,132 plus $2 for cement abutments. Named for the Henry Stockheughter farm on which it stands, the 101-foot-10-inch Howe truss bridge carries Enochsburg Road over Salt Creek about a sixth of a mile east of Enochsburg, historically linking that community to Oldenburg, Hamburg, and Batesville. It is one of only two surviving covered bridges in Franklin County, alongside Snow Hill Bridge, and one of roughly 22 remaining Howe trusses in Indiana. The bridge underwent repairs in 1988, 1996, and 1998, and received a new steel-reinforced floor in 2000 after termite damage; its load rating was progressively downgraded to 3 tons by 2000. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, Stockheughter Bridge remains in place carrying restricted local traffic.
