🌉 Vermont covered bridge
🌉 Spade Farm Covered Bridge
Ferrisburgh, VT · built 1850
Photo: Steven Bergeron via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)Built by Justin Miller around 1850, this Town lattice bridge originally carried Old Hollow Road in North Ferrisburgh. When it was slated to be dismantled for a modern replacement in 1958, local farmer Sam Spade asked to have it moved to his farm, where it still stands beside Route 7. The privately owned bridge retains period advertising painted and stenciled on its truss members, but it has fallen into disrepair because private ownership leaves it ineligible for public preservation funding.
🏘️ Town: Ferrisburgh, VT (Addison County)
🗓️ Year built: 1850
🔨 Builder: Justin Miller
🌉 Truss type: Town lattice
📏 Length: 85 ft
🌊 Crosses: storm drainage ditch
🛣️ Road carried: private
🏛️ National Register: Not listed
📜 Dating notes: Originally stood on Old Hollow Road in North Ferrisburgh; moved to the Spade Farm in 1958 to save it from demolition. A sign on the bridge claims 1824, but historians favor about 1850.
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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.