🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Maple Street Covered Bridge
Fairfax, VT · built 1865
Photo: Srbergeron via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Also called the Lower or Fairfax Covered Bridge, this is Fairfax's only surviving historic covered bridge and one of very few two-lane covered bridges in Vermont, built wide to handle village traffic between the village center and Bellows Free Academy. It was built by Kingsbury and Stone in 1865. The great Flood of 1927 lifted it off its foundations, and residents still argue about whether it was set back down backwards.
🏘️ Town: Fairfax, VT (Franklin County)
🗓️ Year built: 1865
🔨 Builder: Kingsbury and Stone
🌉 Truss type: Town lattice
📏 Length: 57 ft
🌊 Crosses: Mill Brook
🛣️ Road carried: Maple Street
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
📜 Dating notes: Washed off its foundations by the Flood of 1927 and re-set; local debate continues over whether it was put back facing the opposite direction. Major renovation in 1990-1991.
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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.