🌉 Taftsville Covered Bridge
Woodstock (Taftsville), VT · built 1836
Photo: Magicpiano via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Solomon Emmons III built this bridge in 1836 after floods had washed away three earlier Taftsville crossings in 1807, 1811 and 1828, using no patented truss design but a craftsman multiple-kingpost system with semi-independent laminated arches, possibly influenced by Swiss building. It is the oldest covered bridge in Windsor County and among the oldest in the United States, and the second-longest covered bridge in Vermont. Irene undermined its south abutment in 2011, closing it for two years of restoration before it reopened in September 2013.
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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.