🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Martin Covered Bridge
Marshfield, VT · also known as Orton Farm Covered Bridge · built 1890
Photo: Mfwills via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Listed in bridge guides under the Orton Farm, its site, the Martin Covered Bridge was built about 1890 by Herman F. Townsend, a prominent local bridgewright. It is Marshfield's only surviving historic covered bridge and one of the few 19th-century Vermont bridges originally built to carry a private farm road rather than a public highway. It stands just off U.S. Route 2 in southern Marshfield and is now open only to pedestrians.
🏘️ Town: Marshfield, VT (Washington County)
🗓️ Year built: 1890
🔨 Builder: Herman F. Townsend
🌉 Truss type: Queen post
📏 Length: 45 ft
🌊 Crosses: Winooski River
🛣️ Road carried: farm access road
🏛️ National Register: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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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.