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Green River, Windham County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-13-04
County: Windham County
Township: Guilford
Town/Village: Green River
Bridge Name: Green River
Crosses: Green River
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 104'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1873
Builder: Marcus Worden
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N42 46.529
Longitude: W072 40.033
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Directions: 1.4 miles south of jct I-91 (Exit 1) on US5, then 4.6 miles right on Guilford Center Rd., 2.5 miles right on Jacksonville Stage Rd. and 0.1 miles left. At Green River.

Green River Bridge, Guilford, Windham County, VT Built 1870
Bill Caswell Photo, April 21, 2014

Green River Bridge, Guilford, Windham County, VT Built 1870
Jim & Gloria Smedley Photo, April 2012

Green River Bridge, Guilford, Windham County, VT Built 1870
Bill Caswell Photo

Green River Bridge, Guilford, Windham County, VT Built 1870
Richard E. Roy Collection

Green River Bridge, Guilford, Windham County, VT Built 1870
Bill Caswell Photo, April 21, 2014

Comments:
This bridge was built to replace a structure lost in the 1869 flood. For a few years, the road crossed on a temporary, crib-supported structure until the town could finance the new bridge. Per the Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), January 31, 1873, "The prospect now is that the people of Green River will have a good bridge at that place. The job of building the abutments is let to M. H. Day of Chesterfield, N. H., and the building of a covered bridge to Marcus Worden of Guilford." Per the Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), December 20, 1878, "Guilford. --- The freshet of the 10th inst., damaged one of the abutments of the bridge at Green River." Per The Brattleboro Daily Reformer, December 9, 1914, "The death of Leonard J. Timson, 94, of Williamsville recalls the fact that Mr. Timson built the long covered bridge that crosses Green river in this village….David Worden, 74. of this place assisted him in his work." So, it is possible that a covered bridge was the bridge carried off in 1869. This is not yet certain.

Sources:
The Brattleboro Daily Reformer, December 9, 1914.
Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), December 20, 1878.
Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), January 31, 1873.
Allen, Richard S. & Morse Victor. Windham County's Famous Covered Bridges, 1960, page 14
Evans, Benjamin D. & June R.. New England's Covered Bridges, 2004, Pages 294-295
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 150

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