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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 one 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 Deveroux. Ms. Deveroux  [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.