Editing Bloomfield, Indiana (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Richland-Plummer Creek Covered Bridge, southern side and eastern end.jpg|thumb|The Richland-Plummer Creek Bridge]]
[[File:Osborn Site near Bloomfield.jpg|thumb|Part of the Osborn Site, an archaeological site west of Bloomfield]]

[[Image:Bloomfield Indiana Police with Indiana State Police circa 1948.jpg|thumb|upright|Bloomfield law enforcement officers (Deputy Sheriff Lem Clark, center) with the Indiana State Police circa 1940]]

* The Bloomfield Town Park is located at 61 West Main Street adjacent to the Bloomfield School. Located in the park is a Turn-of-the-Century Bandstand, 2 enclosed shelter houses, 2 open shelter houses, an array of play ground equipment, two basketball open basketball courts and one enclosed basketball courts. 
* One of the best preserved covered bridges in the state is Bloomfield's [[Richland-Plummer Creek Covered Bridge]], built by [[Archibald M. Kennedy|A.M. Kennedy]] and Sons in 1883. It is located approximately 1{{fraction|3|4}} miles south of town. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.<ref name=nris/>
* The World's Largest Hi-Lift Jack is located in front of the Hi-Lift Jack Company/Bloomfield Manufacturing Company on Spring Street in Bloomfield. The replica jack, produced to commemorate the company's 100th anniversary, is made of cast iron, stands 20 feet tall, and weights 2,980 pounds.
* Near Bloomfield is the [[Tulip Viaduct]].
* Bloomfield is the home of the Shawnee Summer Theatre Indiana's oldest continuously running professional summer theater.  Shawnee has operated, uninterrupted, since 1960.
* The man who owned the land where Bloomfield was built (Peter Cornelius Van Slyke) is buried in Bloomfield in the Van Slyke cemetery on the west end of town (behind the old woolen mill). 
* A sign near the Van Slyke cemetery states the following: "The history stars in 1816, when Peter C. Van Slyke moved from New York State to Indiana.  Van Slyke purchased land in Greene County next to the White River.  By the year 1824 he had in his possession at least sixty-two acres of land.  He had some of his land cleared to allow settlers to stay for a season and rest on their travels to the west. At this time the county court was located in Burlington, Indiana.  Due to a major shortage of water the area was unable to support the growing number of people.  In 1824 State legislators appointed commissioners to meet and decide where the new county seat would be located.  Van Slyke put in an offer to donate his land for the purpose of the new town.  This was the best offer that the commissioners had received.  They decided to make the land the county seat and to name it Bloomfield, after a city in New York."
* [[Shawnee Field]] is approximately five miles west of town.

===Festivals===
* Annual Bloomfield Apple Festival and Parade held typically on the first full weekend of October in the Bloomfield Town Park. 
* Annual Christmas on the Square, Lighted Christmas Parade and Lighting of the Park is held in December.