Situated down a single dirt track road, and upstream from a steep gorge, it is hard to believe that 150 years ago the bridge was beside a thriving mill producing…
Phill arrives at his final county to visit in Vermont – Franklin – where the Maple Street bridge is the first of the final eight bridges remaining to complete his…
The 4th oldest covered bridge in Vermont, the Brown’s River bridge was by-passed in the 1960’s by a new road and fell into disrepair. Over the next few decades, various…
In this September 2026 edition of the VCBS podcast, host Phill Gatenby welcomes author Kim Varney Chandler to the studio to discuss covered bridges that have connected the two states…
In this episode, Phill visits a bridge originally built in 1879, which stood over the Black River for one hundred and eighteen years until arsonists set fire to it on…
This bridge spanning the Black River, used to sit a few miles away over Lords Creek until the abutments were washed away in fast waters after a storm in 1958.…
The most easterly covered bridge in the State, this is the fourth bridge on this site though only the 3rd and 4th have been covered – the 3rd burnt down…
The middle of the three covered bridges remaining that span the mighty Connecticut River. One of only four of the one hundred covered bridges in Vermont with a Howe truss,…
The Gates Farm Bridge used to stand within an eye shot of the Cambridge Village Bridge before a new bypass road was built in 1950, that saw the latter bridge…
