Quinebaug River Bridge
Worcester County, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge. Built in the 1930s, covered in 1953, 33 ft. long. Once the main entrance to Old Sturbridge Village.
The Quinebaug River Bridge started out as an ordinary open bridge in the 1930s before Old Sturbridge Village had its wooden covering added in 1953, giving the small 33-foot span the historic look the museum wanted for its grounds. For its first two years as a covered bridge, it served as the primary entrance to the entire village, the crossing that greeted every visitor arriving to see the recreated 1830s New England town.
That role ended in 1955, when flooding swept through the region and forced the bridge out of service as the main gateway. It remains standing on the Quinebaug River within Old Sturbridge Village today, built on a Burr truss frame, one of the museum's two covered bridges alongside the Vermont-born Taft Bridge nearby — together making Old Sturbridge Village home to a pair of the thirteen authentic covered bridges left in Massachusetts.