🌉 Poland Covered Bridge
Cambridge, VT · built 1887
Also called the Junction or Cambridge Junction Bridge, the Poland Bridge was built in 1887 by George W. Holmes and named for local official Judge Poland. A local newspaper complained in 1888 that the costly bridge and road benefited mainly Poland himself and predicted taxpayers would call it the Bridge of Sighs; Poland died in his hayfield the following summer without using it. After deterioration and a 1995 vehicle strike damaged its support system, the bridge was reconstructed beginning in 2003 with $1 million from the National Historic Bridge Program and reopened on July 4, 2004. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 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.