About
The Bartonsville Covered Bridge carries Lower Bartonsville Road over the Williams River in the village of Bartonsville, in the town of Rockingham, a short distance north of Vermont Route 103. The current bridge is a Town lattice truss, 168 feet long, built in 2012 to replace a historic covered bridge on the same crossing. It is open to vehicle traffic.
History
The original Bartonsville Covered Bridge was built by Sanford Granger around 1870 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 2, 1973. On August 28, 2011, flash flooding from Tropical Storm Irene destroyed it. Town officials voted to use the insurance money to build a new covered bridge. Cold River Bridges of Walpole, New Hampshire, built the replacement in 2012, with engineering by Clough Harbour and Associates, and it opened to traffic on January 26, 2013, seventeen months after the flood.
Design
The new bridge uses a Town lattice truss, a close web of crisscrossed planks, the same truss type as the original. Its truss is 168 feet long.
Visiting
The bridge is on Lower Bartonsville Road, off Vermont Route 103 in Rockingham, and is open to vehicles.
Sources: Bartonsville Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Bartonsville Covered Bridge (Vermont Covered Bridge Society)
Photo: CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (author details on the file page).
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