🌉 Codding Hollow Covered Bridge (Jaynes Covered Bridge)
Waterville, VT · built 1877
Photo: Mfwills via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Officially the Jaynes Bridge, for the Jaynes family who lived nearby when it was built about 1877, this is the furthest upstream, or Upper, of Waterville's three covered bridges and is also named for Codding Hollow, the ravine and road it serves near a Long Trail access. It is popularly called the Kissing Bridge after a tourist in the 1950s jokingly hung a sign proclaiming the nickname, playing on the old idea of covered bridges as sheltered places to steal a kiss. Its timber deck was replaced with steel beams in 1960, leaving the trusses to carry only the superstructure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1974.
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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.