Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge

Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge
Bridge in U.S. state of Vermont
Carries	Automobile
Crosses	Cox Brook
Locale	Northfield, Vermont
Maintained by	Town of Northfield
ID number	VT-12-10
Characteristics
Design	Covered, Queen post
Material	Wood
Total length	56.75 ft (17.30 m)
Width	15.5 ft (4.72 m)
Number of spans	1
Clearance above	12 ft (3.66 m)
History
Constructed by	unknown
Construction end	1872

U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bridge site in U.S. state of Vermont

Coordinates	44°10′22″N 72°39′09″W / 44.17278°N 72.65250°W / 44.17278; -72.65250Coordinates: 44°10′22″N 72°39′09″W / 44.17278°N 72.65250°W / 44.17278; -72.65250
Area	1 acre (0.4 ha)
NRHP Reference #	74000262^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1974

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. This locality is the only place in Vermont where one can see a covered bridge over one stream from another one (the Northfield Falls Covered Bridge) over a different stream. However, there are also two covered bridges located in succession over two channels of the Ottauquechee River in North Hartland, Vermont.

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Recent history

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

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Evans, Benjamin and June. New England's Covered Bridges. University Press of New England, 2004. ISBN 1-58465-320-5

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