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Indiana Bicentennial Celebration 2016

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Legacy Projects > Early Carroll County Bridges & Toll Roads Early Carroll County Bridges & Toll Roads

Children with replicas of a covered bridge

The Heritage Keepers, 3rd grade students of Delphi Elementary School, have planned and constructed replicas of parts of the Michigan Road, showing planks, logs, and tollbooths. Carroll County is fortunate in having two remaining covered bridges, and both are still in use. The children will also build replicas of a covered bridge. These items will be on display during the 2016 Bicentennial and will serve as way to teach students about the early ways of travel and the labor and ingenuity that went into planning and building a better Indiana.

Q&A With Legacy Project Coordinator Mark Smith

What do you consider the key accomplishment related to your Legacy Project?

  • Involving the younger element of Delphi Community High School in meaningful activity which is of an instructional nature and which imparts the heritage of the County and State.

How/where are you preserving information and artifacts related to your Legacy Project?

  • We are preserving the  artifacts, i.e. the completed project,  at the Carroll County Historical Society Museum.

Total number of volunteers who participated.

  • Total number of volunteers who participated: two, those being Assistant Principal Bill Shidler and Carroll County Historian Mark A. Smith.

Legacy Project Photos

Replica of a covered bridge

Replica of a covered bridge

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