🌉 Columbia Covered Bridge
Lemington, VT · built 1912
Photo: Denimadept via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)This interstate span links Lemington, Vermont, with Columbia, New Hampshire, and is the most northerly covered bridge crossing the Connecticut River between the two states. Built by Charles Babbitt in 1911-12, it and the Mount Orne bridge are the only New Hampshire highway bridges carried on Howe trusses, a wood-and-iron design that marked the transition to metal bridges. The two bridges, finished in successive years, were among the last covered bridges built on public highways in either state during the historic covered-bridge era. Its upstream side is sided only halfway up, letting light into the interior.
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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.