Covered Bridge
This file appears in: Kokomo's Historic Highland Park
In 1875, the county commissioned a bridge to carry Strawtown Pike across the Wildcat Creek at the village of Vermont. The creation of Kokomo Reservoir necessitated a new bridge, and the old covered bridge was going to be razed until the Howard County Historical Society began a campaign to save it. It was dismantled and reassembled in Highland Park in 1957.
This file appears in: Kokomo's Historic Highland Park
Kokomo's Historic Highland Park
The gas boom impacted not just the economy of east-central Indiana, but also the communities and even the landscape. People followed the jobs and money. As the city of Kokomo more than doubled in population, community leaders began to look for ways…