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The Hall Covered Bridge, located in southern
Rockingham, Vermont Rockingham is a New England town, town along the Connecticut River in Windham County, Vermont, Windham County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 4,832. Rockingham includes the incorporated ...
, carries Hall Bridge Road across the
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, just north of its junction with
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. It is a Town lattice truss bridge, built in 1982 as a replica of a circa-1867 bridge that was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980. The bridge was listed on the
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in 1973.


Description and history

The Hall Covered Bridge is located in a rural area of southern Rockingham, west of the village of Bellows Falls, spanning the
Saxtons River The Saxtons River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Vermont, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its watershed covers and ...
about east of the village of
Saxtons River The Saxtons River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Vermont, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its watershed covers and ...
. It is a single-span lattice truss bridge, based on the patent of architect
Ithiel Town Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was an American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the f ...
, and rests on stone
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. Its sides are clad in vertical board siding, with three diamond-shaped window openings, and it is topped by a gabled metal roof. The original bridge was built in 1867 by Sanford Granger, a local master bridge builder. It was, at the time of its listing on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1973, one of three surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town (out of 17 documented to exist). The bridge was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980, and a replica was built in 1982 by Milton S. Graton, whose penchant for authenticity extended to the use of oxen to move the finished bridge into place.


See also

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List of Vermont covered bridges Below is a list of covered bridges in Vermont. There are just over 100 authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Vermont, giving the state both the highest number of covered bridges per square mile and per capita in the United States, as we ...
* List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Vermont *
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vermont. See also *List of covered bridges in Vermont *List of non-authentic covered bridges in Vermont References

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont __NOTOC__ The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In Windham County, Vermont, there are 100 properties and districts listed on the National Regist ...


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* {{NRHP in Windham County, Vermont Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Bridges completed in 1867 Covered bridges in Windham County, Vermont Historic American Engineering Record in Vermont National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont Bridges completed in 1982 Buildings and structures demolished in 1980 Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Wooden bridges in Vermont Lattice truss bridges in the United States Buildings and structures in Rockingham, Vermont 1867 establishments in Vermont 1982 establishments in Vermont 1980 disestablishments in Vermont