About
The Larkin Covered Bridge carries Larkin Road over the First Branch of the White River a short distance north of North Tunbridge village, just east of Vermont Route 110. It is a single-span multiple kingpost truss about 68 feet long, built in 1902, with a one-lane roadway about 13 feet wide. It stands over a ford in the river.
History
Arthur C. Adams built the bridge in 1902. It is one of only two documented early 20th-century covered bridges in Vermont; the other is the Kingsbury Covered Bridge in Randolph, built in 1904. The Vermont Covered Bridge Society notes that some roof work was done in 2002. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974. It is one of five covered bridges in Tunbridge; together with one in Chelsea, they form a dense concentration of covered bridges on a single river.
Design
A multiple kingpost truss is a row of vertical posts with diagonal braces leaning toward the center of the span. The Larkin trusses form a rectangle, but the portals are slightly skewed, so the bridge's outline is a parallelogram. It rests on stone and concrete abutments, has a metal roof, and its side walls and portal ends are covered in vertical boards with no openings.
Visiting
The bridge is on Larkin Road, just east of its junction with VT 110. It is open to vehicles as a one-lane crossing.
Sources: Larkin Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Larkin Bridge (Vermont Covered Bridge Society), Larkin Covered Bridge (coveredbridges.net)
Photo: Ahale, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Location
Larkin Road, Tunbridge, VermontSimilar Bridges in category
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