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Village or Gassetts, Windsor County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-14-93x
County: Windsor County
Township: Springfield
Town/Village: North Springfield
Bridge Name: Village or Gassetts
Crosses: Great Brook
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 42'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1870
Builder: Granville Leland & Dennis Allen
When Lost: Dec 1934
Cause:
Latitude: N43 20.02
Longitude: W072 32.10
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Directions: 0.7 miles east of VT 10 on Main St., just west of North Springfield.

Village or Gassetts Bridge with Baltimore Bridge in the background. North Springfield, Windsor County, VT
Richard Sanders Allen Collection, NSPCB Archives

Village or Gassetts Bridge, Springfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1870 Lost Dec 1934
Todd Clark Collection

Village or Gassetts Bridge, Springfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1870 Lost Dec 1934
Bill Caswell Collection

Comments:
On the former main road between North Springfield and Gassetts. Near the original location of the Baltimore Bridge (VT/45-14-03). The Gassetts and Baltimore bridges were built to replace two bridges lost during flooding in the Fall of 1869. Per the Springfield Reporter, December 21, 1934, "Larger Number Working on Federal Jobs; Old Covered Bridge at No. Springfield Razed --- SPRINGFIELD— With the raz ing last week of the old covered bridge at the northerly approach to the village of North Springfield the last bridge of its type on the state highway system in this district disappeared a victim to progress and the age of cement and steel. The neighboring structure [45-14-03] which crosses No 10. Brook at the intersection of the County road and the North Springfield-Gassetts highway is the only covered bridge remaining in the Town of Springfield."

Sources:
Springfield Reporter, December 21, 1934.
Allen, Richard Sanders. Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County, VT, 1962, page 26

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