Adams Mill Covered Bridge

1872
Cutler, Indiana
Web Site

In the 1800s Carroll County petitioned for bridges over Wildcat Creek's north fork. Adams Mill and her sister bridge the Lancaster bridge remain today. They are of Howe Truss style and had white siding and 18 inch cedar shake roofs. A bow arch was added later to Adams Mill bridge.
Covered bridges gave protection for floors and helped nervous horses focus on the far bank. They were built wide enough for a load of hay to pass through but not for two-way traffic.
The Adams Mill bridge is located 1/8 mile north of the Mill, closed to vehicular traffic in 1974 and to foot traffic in 1995. It was restored and reopened for 3 ton traffic in October 1999. So the view of Wildcat Creek could be enjoyed, windows on each side were added.

Burnett's Creek Arch *

Adams Township
1050 N. 230 W. (Towpath Road)

Burnett's Creek Arch near Lockport is a wonderful example of 1840s engineering. This limestone arch was built without mortar in the years 1838-1840 to serve as a aqueduct that carried the Wabash and Erie Canal over Burnett's Creek. Some of the limestone blocks used to build the arch are twelve feet long and two feet thick. Three layers of black walnut beams across the creek bottom still form the arch's foundation. The arch is 20 feet wide (across the bottom of the arch), 85.5 feet from end to end, and 10 feet high.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it now carries Towpath road and is one of the oldest working bridges in Indiana.

Mullin School House *

100 W. 75 N
Liberty Township
Open by appointment: Call Lewis Mullin 574-652-2663

Known at various times as District School No. 3, Election School, and Martin School; the Mullin schoolhouse has been carefully restored and furnished by the Mullin family to resemble a one-room school as it would have looked in the 1800s. Standing inside the brick building today, visitors can almost hear the voices of school children as they recite their lessons. The building was used as a school from 1874 to 1900.

Potowatomi Trail of Death Markers

#1. A stone marker at the former site of Chief Winamac's Old Village on Towpath Road, CR 230 W, at County Road 112 West. This was the camp of September 10, 1838 where a child and a man died.

#2. A sign erected by the Carroll County Historical Society in 1988 on County Roads 800 West and 700 North,Private Property

#3. A metal plaque on a boulder at Pleasant Run north of Pittsburg at County Road 800 West and 550 North. This was the camp of September 11, 1938, which was 17 miles from the previous night.

Called the "Trail of Death" because 39 Potawatomi Indians died along the way, this historic regional trail begins in northwestern Indiana, crosses Illinois and Missouri and concludes in eastern Kansas. It commemorates the hardships suffered by the 859 Potawatomi who were forcibly removed from northern Indiana and marched at gunpoint to Kansas in 1838. The trail covers 660 miles in four states. In Indiana the trail runs through Fulton, Cass, Carroll, Tippecanoe, and Warren Counties. The forced emigration is called the Trail of Death because so many died along the way and were buried in unmarked graves by the roadside.

Sycamore Row

Sycamore Row consists of two rows of very old sycamore trees that grew out of freshly cut logs laid down to create a corduroy road through a swampy section of historic Michigan Road in the 1830's. Michigan Road was the first state road in Indiana, running from Madison to Michigan City.

* On the National Register of Historic Places