🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Hall Covered Bridge
Rockingham, VT · built 1870
Photo: Doug Kerr via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)The original Hall bridge was built about 1867 by Sanford Granger, Rockingham's master bridge builder, when it was one of three surviving 19th-century covered bridges in a town that once had seventeen. An overweight truck loaded with stone destroyed it on October 2, 1980. Milton S. Graton built an authentic replica in 1982, famously using oxen to pull the finished bridge into place, complete with the original's unusually narrow twelve-foot portals.
🏘️ Town: Rockingham, VT (Windham County)
🗓️ Year built: 1870
🔨 Builder: Sanford Granger
🌉 Truss type: Town lattice
📏 Length: 121 ft
🌊 Crosses: Saxtons River
🛣️ Road carried: Hall Bridge Road
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
📜 Dating notes: Base year is the original c.1867/1870 bridge; original destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980 and replaced by an authentic replica in 1982.
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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.