Northfield Falls Covered Bridge

Northfield, Washington County. Built 1872, 137 ft over the Dog River. A central pier supports its Town lattice span, and it is also called the Station bridge.

Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont
Vermont
National Register of Historic Places
County Washington
City/Town Northfield
1872
GPS Coordinates 44.172500, -72.651110
Bridge Status Open to traffic
Crosses Dog River
Bridge Type/Truss Design Town Lattice
Length (feet) 137ft
Northfield Falls Covered Bridge in Northfield, Vermont

About

The Northfield Falls Covered Bridge carries Cox Brook Road over the Dog River in the village of Northfield Falls, a short distance west of Vermont Route 12. It is a Town lattice truss bridge, about 137 feet long, built in 1872. It is also known as the Station Covered Bridge. It carries one lane of vehicle traffic and is maintained by the Town of Northfield.

History

The bridge was built in 1872; its builder is unknown. In 1963 four steel I-beams were added beneath the deck and the unmortared stone abutments were faced with concrete. A central pier was added to reinforce the single span. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1974.

Design

The Town lattice truss is a close web of crisscrossed planks. The bridge is 19.5 feet wide with a 16-foot, one-lane roadway. It has a metal gabled roof and vertical board siding that wraps a short way inside the portals and stops below the eaves, leaving an open strip along each side.

Visiting

The bridge is on Cox Brook Road, a public road, and is open at all times. It is one of five covered bridges in Northfield. Three of them are on Cox Brook Road within a quarter mile, and the Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge stands a few hundred feet to the west, close enough that the two can be seen from each other.

Sources: Northfield Falls Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Northfield Falls Covered Bridge (Greg Disch)

Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Location

Cox Brook Road, Northfield, Vermont

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