🌉 Shelburne Museum Covered Bridge
Shelburne, VT · also known as Museum Covered Bridge · built 1845
Photo: http://www.tc2u.com via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)This double-barreled, two-lane Burr arch bridge, with a separate pedestrian walkway, was built in 1845 across the Lamoille River in Cambridge, where the great 1927 flood once rose seven feet above its floor. When the state prepared to replace it, Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb arranged to save it; the bridge was dismantled in 1949-50, its beams still bearing their reassembly numbers, and re-erected over a man-made pond on the museum grounds. It served for years as the museum's entrance before automobile traffic became too hard on it and the entrance was moved.
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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.