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Silk or Locust Grove or Robinson Ranch, Bennington County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-02-04
County: Bennington County
Township: Bennington
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Silk or Locust Grove or Robinson Ranch
Crosses: Walloomsac River
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 88'
Roadway Width:
Built: c1840
Builder: Benjamin Sears?
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N42 54.565
Longitude: W073 13.523
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Directions: 1.0 miles northwest of jct US7A on VT67A and 0.2 miles left on Silk Rd. opposite Bennington College campus.

Silk or Locust Grove or Robinson Bridge, Bennington, Bennington County, VT Built c1840
Bill Caswell Photo, April 28, 2012

Silk or Locust Grove or Robinson Bridge, Bennington, Bennington County, VT Built c1840
Richard E. Roy Collection

Silk or Locust Grove or Robinson Bridge, Bennington, Bennington County, VT Built c1840
Bill Caswell Photo, May 9, 1987

Silk or Locust Grove Bridge, Bennington, Bennington County, VT Built c1840
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
Extensive repairs were made to the bridge in 1952. Then circa 1985 a new floor of nail-laminated 2 by 8 inch planks was installed. It was restored in 1991 by Gilbert Newbury at a cost of $100,000.00, replacing some roof boards, installing new cedar shingles on the roof that replaced the previous wood shingles, and repairing the truss lattice members and the chords. Additional repairs were made in 1993 to the roof members, new guardrails installed at the portals and new signage, at a cost of $16,000.00. Concrete forms one abutment and the other abutment is dry stone capped with concrete. The Silk and Silk Road names come from local residents and not from any silk manufacturing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1973.

Sources:
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume LVII, No. 2, Spring 1999, page 6
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 138

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