🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Chamberlin Covered Bridge
Lyndon, VT · also known as Chamberlin Mill Covered Bridge · built 1881
Photo: Mfwills via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Also called the Chamberlin Mill or Whitcomb bridge, it takes its name from a nearby gristmill, later joined by a sawmill, whose ruins remain near the site. Maps and accounts indicate a bridge has stood here since at least the late 1700s. It is one of Lyndon's five similar surviving bridges, sharing their open upper walls, wide eaves and projecting portals, and its open gable ends give drivers better visibility than most covered spans.
🏘️ Town: Lyndon, VT (Caledonia County)
🗓️ Year built: 1881
🌉 Truss type: Queen post
📏 Length: 66 ft
🌊 Crosses: South Wheelock Branch of Passumpsic River
🛣️ Road carried: Chamberlin Bridge Road
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
📜 Dating notes: An 1881 newspaper account discussed covering the bridge and building a new abutment, suggesting the crossing may have existed uncovered before it was covered.
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Bridge facts compiled from the National Register of Historic Places, the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and town histories. Map pin is approximate.