🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Longley Covered Bridge
Montgomery, VT · built 1863
Photo: Srbergeron via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)Also known as the Harnois bridge, the Longley is the oldest surviving bridge built by Sheldon and Savannah Jewett, dating to 1863, two decades before most of their Montgomery work. It crosses the Trout River northwest of Montgomery Village just off Route 118. Its survival anchors the Jewett brothers' story: local farmers and lumbermen who built bridges in the area for more than thirty years.
🏘️ Town: Montgomery, VT (Franklin County)
🗓️ Year built: 1863
🔨 Builder: Sheldon & Savannah Jewett
🌉 Truss type: Town lattice
📏 Length: 85 ft
🌊 Crosses: Trout River
🛣️ Road carried: Longley Bridge Road
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
📜 Dating notes: Fully restored in 1992; more recently reported closed to traffic and bypassed by an adjacent temporary bridge.
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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.