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Adams Mill Covered Bridge

Built in 1872. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“Adams Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge located near Cutler, Indiana. It was built in 1872, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, and completely restored in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Adams Mill Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 1996 · category: Structure · built in 1872.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Co. Rd. 50 E over Wildcat Cr., Cutler, 46920
  • When was it listed? January 1996
  • Category. structure
  • Township. Democrat township
  • When was it built? 1872
  • National Register reference number. 95001537 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

328 words

The chapter on Democrat Township in History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names Cutler. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The oldest mill was the Adam's mill, located on Wild Cat creek, east of Cutler, in 1831. Mr. Adams erected a flouring-mill in 1835. Samuel Weaver operated a carding-mill, also manufactured linseed oil, and later operated a woolen-mill at Prince William. A tannery was operated by a Mr. Campbell from 1835 to 1840. Lexington was laid out on land of Eli Patty in 1835, and was a good trading point. Prince William was noted in early times as a popular place for the holding of political meetings. Considerable business was transacted at this place during the palmy days of the "Plank Road" existence. Wild Cat creek is the principal stream in the township, having several branches in the southeastern part of the town¬ ship.

Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Democrat Township - 328 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Adams Mill Covered Bridge: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carroll County Highway Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutler, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCutler$6,000Several large trees were reported down with one blocking State Route 75 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCutler$500Tree limbs, eight to ten inches in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011HailCutler-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCutler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Adams Mill0.3 miles1984
Burlington Township No. 9 School5.5 miles2019
Lancaster Covered Bridge5.6 miles2021
Wagoner-Ayres House5.8 miles2024
American House Hotel6.1 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001537 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll CountyAll 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.