🌉 Chiselville Covered Bridge
Sunderland, VT · built 1870
Photo: Doug Kerr via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)Built in 1870 by Daniel Oatman, the Chiselville bridge stands about 40 feet above Roaring Branch and is also called the High Bridge for surviving the flood of 1927. Its portal carries the classic warning of a one-dollar fine for driving faster than a walk. In 1971 two loaded dump trucks crossing at once badly damaged the floor, and the repair with a concrete slab, steel stringers and a center pier left it out of Vermont's 1973-74 National Register covered-bridge nominations, despite some secondary sources claiming a listing. It also had a brief appearance in the 1987 film Baby Boom.
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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.