🌉 Howe Covered Bridge
Tunbridge, VT · built 1879
Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Built about 1879, the Howe Bridge serves as the gateway to the Howe family farm, its portals traditionally decorated with flowers set in antique cattle feeding buckets. The Vermont Covered Bridge Society credits the builders as Mudget, Wells, and Tenny, while the bridge's National Register documentation lists the builder as unknown. It is the southernmost of Tunbridge's five covered bridges, which together with the Moxley Bridge in Chelsea form one of Vermont's densest clusters of covered bridges on a single river. Deck repairs were made in 1994-95, the roof and unusual knee braces were replaced in 2002, and it was rehabilitated in 2011. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 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.