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Indiana Centennial Card No. 14
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Object Description
Title
Indiana
Centennial
Card
No
.
14
Description
Series
1
.
No
.
14
.
National
Road
Bridge
Over
White
River
,
Indianapolis
M.R
.
Hyman
,
Publisher
,
Indianapolis
The
old
covered
bridge
which
was for
many
years
looked
upon
as
one
of the
“antiquities”
of
Indianapolis
spanned
White
river
and
gave
passage
to the
great
National
Road
,
which
ran
from
Cumberland
,
Md.
, into
western
Illinois
. This
thoroughfare
reached
Indiana
in
1827
, and the
White
river
bridge
was
built
out
of a
congressional
appropriation
made
in
1831
. Its
cost
was
$18,000
and its
builders
are
given
as
William
Wernweg
and
Walter
Blake
.
It
was
known
as a
“Wernweg”
bridge
from the
fact
that its
arches
of
wood
were
constructed
from a
design
invented
by
Wernweg
.
It
was a
staunch
old
structure
and the
timbers
in
it
were as
sound
when
torn
down
as
when
put
in
place
. As
another
bridge
to
take
the
Washington
street
traffic
was
built
before
the
old
bridge
was
removed
, an
effort
was
made
by
some
to
preserve
the
old
relic
,
which
had been in
service
for
more
than
sixty
years
, but the
powers
that were
proved
impervious
to any
sentiment
of this
sort
. The
National
Road
,
which
was the
great
highway
from the
East
to
West
before
the
railroads
came
into
general
use
, was
originally
to have
passed
farther
to the
south
, but
through
the
influence
of
Senator
Oliver
H
.
Smith
the
route
was
shifted
so
as to
take
in
Indianapolis
.
Adapted
from
Cottman-Hyman
Centennial
History
of
Indiana
.
Copyrighted
1916
.
Indiana
Centennial
Historic
Mailing
Card
1816-1916
Subject
Indiana--History
Indiana--Centennial Celebrations, etc.
Publisher
M
.
R
.
Hyman
Original Date
1916
Time Period
1910s
(1910-1919)
Digital Date
2016-01-04
Digital Reproduction Specifications
Full View: 600 dpi jpg; Archived: 600 dpi tiff; Scanner: Epson Expression 10000XL
Genre
Postcards
Language
en
Size
10.8 x 15.9 cm
Identifier
PC-C-014
Repository Collection
Local & Family History Services Archival Collection
Physical Repository
St. Joseph County Public Library
Additional Usage Terms
Materials in Michiana Memory are in the public domain. This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact local.history@sjcpl.org.
Provenance
St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN)
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St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN)
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