Early Parke County communities centered on mills established along Sugar Creek, Big Raccoon Creek and their branches. Montezuma was already a Wabash River port when the Wabash and Erie Canal arrived in 1848. Today there are more than 32 covered bridges in the county, which are celebrated each fall at the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival.

This piece depicts a cluster of three-dimensional, pentagonal roofed structures of various sizes protruding from a backdrop of lines indicating rushing currents.

Designers Jeff Laramore and David Jemerson Young of 2nd Globe, an Indianapolis–based artistic company, designed all 92 of the county sculptures featured on the outside of the Indiana State Museum. Their designs narrate the counties’ famous natives, historically significant events, or their cultural characteristics, and were fabricated and installed by various Indiana sculptors, carvers, glassworkers, metalworkers, and other artisans.