Hall Covered Bridge
Windham County, Rockingham. Built 1870, 121 ft, Town lattice truss, over the Saxtons River.
About Hall Covered Bridge
The Hall Covered Bridge spans the Saxtons River in Rockingham, in Windham County, Vermont. It is about 121 feet long and a Town lattice truss. It dates from 1870.
Rockingham has four covered bridges in all, among them the Victorian Village and Worrall bridges.
Architecture
The Town lattice truss was patented by Ithiel Town in 1820. Its web is a criss-cross of relatively light sawn planks pinned with wooden trunnels, needing none of the heavy hand-cut joinery an arch demands, which made it quick and cheap to raise.
About this record
Construction date, length, truss type and waterway follow the published inventory of Vermont covered bridges. Where sources disagree on a date, the inventory value is used here.
