During the Mansfield Covered Bridge Festival
the Civic Center serves as the anchor point of the Festival. It is estimated
that 75 to 80 percent of the one and half million visitors to the
festival each year visit the Civic Center. It is located in the very heart of
Old Mansfield
Village next to the 1867 historic
covered bridge. Over 250 vendor spaces, including the 125 located inside the
Civic Center are located adjacent to the bridge. The crossroads of the festival
are South Mill Road and Martin Road which crosses the bridge.
The Mansfield Civic Center was built in 1996 to
serve as a facility to house quality vendors during the annual Mansfield Covered
Bridge Festival. The facility is co-owned by Mansfield Restoration II, LLC, and
John and Lisza Devereaux. Ms. Devereaux
[fgbear@atlantic.net] is the leasing agent for the Covered
Bridge Festival and may be reached at 352-238-3972. William Osmon
[wro1@verizon.net] should be
contacted (812-877-9831) for all other festivals held in the historic hamlet of
Mansfield.
Its 21,600 square foot concrete floored interior is one of the
largest free span buildings in western Indiana. It has the flexibility to serve
125 vendors in 10 x 10 foot spaces and also serve as the center of a car show
with nearly 100 cars. Past use has been confined to the Covered Bridge Festival
since it was built. That use is now being expanded to make it available to the
community on a full time basis to house a variety of activities. Some structural
changes such as large doors to accommodate easy access and egress have already been made to
respond to the new uses.
See several aerial
views of the Covered Bridge Festival
