🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 East Fairfield Covered Bridge
Fairfield, VT · built 1865
Photo: Mfwills via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)This queen post span carries the road across Black Creek, a tributary of the Missisquoi River, at the western end of East Fairfield village, just south of Route 36. Its builder is not recorded. After repeated attempts by the town to keep the deteriorating bridge open, it was closed entirely, then rebuilt by contractors in 2008-2009 and returned to traffic in the summer of 2009.
🏘️ Town: Fairfield, VT (Franklin County)
🗓️ Year built: 1865
🌉 Truss type: Queen post
📏 Length: 67 ft
🌊 Crosses: Black Creek
🛣️ Road carried: Covered Bridge Road
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
📜 Dating notes: Closed to traffic after years of patch repairs, then fully reconstructed in 2008-2009 and reopened on July 5, 2009.
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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.