🌉 Union Street Covered Bridge (Middle Bridge)
Woodstock, VT · also known as Middle Covered Bridge / Union Street Bridge · built 1969
Photo: daveynin via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)Woodstock's Middle Bridge was built in 1969 by Milton Graton and his sons using traditional methods, its Town lattice held together by about 1,400 oak treenails and no structural steel, and a team of oxen, Ben and Joe, pulled it across the Ottauquechee into place over four and a half days. It was the first authentic public covered bridge built in Vermont since the 19th century, replacing a condemned iron bridge. Arsonists set it afire in 1974 during the Fireman's Ball; Graton restored it and it reopened in 1976.
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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.