🌉 Hammond Covered Bridge
Pittsford, VT · built 1842
Photo: Doug Kerr via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)Built in 1842 by Asa Nourse, the Hammond Bridge is famous as 'the bridge that went on a voyage': the great flood of 1927 swept it off its abutments and carried it about a mile and a half downstream, essentially intact. During the winter of 1927-28 it was floated back on barrels and reset at its original site in the Florence section of Pittsford. A modern steel and concrete bridge later bypassed it, and in 1961 the state acquired it as a historic site; it is now closed to vehicle traffic but open to visitors on foot.
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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.