Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge

Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge
Carries Automobile
Crosses Cox Brook
Locale Northfield, Vermont
Maintained by Town of Northfield
ID number VT-12-10
Design Covered, Queen post
Material Wood
Total length 56.75 ft (17.30 m)
Width 15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Number of spans 1
Vertical clearance 12 ft (3.7 m)
Constructed by unknown
Construction end

1872

NRHP Reference#: 74000262
Added to NRHP: October 15, 1974[1]

The Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge that crosses Cox Brook in Northfield, Vermont on Cox Brook Road. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

The bridge is of Queen post truss design. Note that in some reference books on the topic of Vermont covered bridges, it is stated that this locality is the only place you can see one covered bridge from another one (the Northfield Falls Covered Bridge) in the state. However this is not true as there are two covered bridges located in succession in North Hartland, Vermont.

Recent history

Like the other bridges in this locality the deck has been reinforced by I beams, sometime in the 1960s.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Accessed June 1, 2011. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Evans, Benjamin and June. New England's Covered Bridges. University Press of New England, 2004. ISBN 1584653205