Creamery Covered Bridge

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Creamery Covered Bridge
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Nearest city Brattleboro, Vermont
Coordinates 42°50′58″N72°35′12″W / 42.84944°N 72.58667°W / 42.84944; -72.58667
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1879 (1879)
Architectural styleTown lattice truss
NRHP reference No. 73000202 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 28, 1973

The Creamery Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Now closed to traffic, the Town lattice truss bridge formerly carried Guilford Road across Whetstone Brook, just south of Vermont Route 9. Built in 1879, it is Brattleboro's last surviving 19th-century covered bridge.

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Description and history

The Creamery Covered Bridge is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of downtown Brattleboro, just south of Vermont Route 9 and west (upstream) of the current alignment of Guilford Road, which it previously carried. The bridge is 80 feet (24 m) long and 19 feet (5.8 m) wide, and rests on stone abutments, one of which has been faced in concrete. The roadway is 15 feet (4.6 m) wide, and an attached sidewalk on the downstream side is 5.5 feet (1.7 m) wide. The bridge is topped by a roof that is slate over the roadway and metal over the sidewalk. The bridge trusses, built to the patented design of Ithiel Town, are protected by vertical board siding that rises about half their height, with a similar wall outside the sidewalk. Guy wires attached to the upstream side provide additional lateral support. [2]

The Route 9 facing end of the bridge. When in Vermont, there is no shame with embracing the cliche. 10329943735.jpg
The Route 9 facing end of the bridge.

The bridge was built in 1879 out of spruce lumber, and the sidewalk was added about 1920. It is the last of what were once a large number of covered bridges in Brattleboro, and is the only covered bridge visible from Route 9 anywhere along its length, making it a significant tourist attraction. [2] The bridge was closed to traffic in 2010.

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Creamery Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-11-16.