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Passumpsic Village, Caledonia County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-03-09x
County: Caledonia County
Township: Barnet
Town/Village: Passumpsic
Bridge Name: Passumpsic Village
Crosses: Passumpsic River
Truss type: Paddleford & Arch
Spans: 1
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: c1858
Builder:
When Lost: Nov 1927
Cause: Flood
Latitude: N44 22.51
Longitude: W072 01.53
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: Bridge Street at Passumpsic.

Passumpsic Village Bridge, Barnet, Caledonia County, VT Lost Nov 1927
Eastern Illustrating Postcard, Richard E. Roy Collection

Passumpsic Village Bridge, Barnet, Caledonia County, VT Flood Nov 1927
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
16-panel truss. Per the North Star (Danville), September 26, 1857, "NOTICE TO Bridge Builders & Stone Masons. --- The undersigned will receive proposals till the 15th of October next, for a contract to build a covered bridge across the Passumpsic River at Passumpsic Village in Barnet, with two abutments of stone. The plan of the bridge to be similar to the Bridge across the Passumpsic River near the Railroad Depot in St. Johnsbury." According to the History of Barnet, Vermont, by Frederic Palmer Wells (1923), the contractors were William Adams and Ezra Parks who employed Charles Richardson, “a well known bridge builder”, as carpenter.

Sources:
Wells, Frederic Palmer. History of Barnet, Vermont: From the Outbreak of the French and Indian War to Present Time. Free Press printing Company, 1923, Pages 197-198.
North Star (Danville), September 26, 1857.
NSPCB Archives, Richard Sanders Allen Collection, Paper Files, Vermont Lists & Maps, Folder 1

Compilation 2026 Covered Spans of Yesteryear

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