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Brondale Farm, Caledonia County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-03-21x
County: Caledonia County
Township: Hardwick
Town/Village: East Hardwick
Bridge Name: Brondale Farm
Crosses: Greensboro Brook
Truss type:
Spans: 1
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: 1907
Builder:
When Lost: Nov 1927
Cause: Flood
Latitude: N44 31.96
Longitude: W072 16.90
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Directions: Between East Hardwick and Greensboro Bend, probably on VT 16. Adjacent to the railroad pony truss.

Railroad Pony truss next to Highway Bridge, East Hardwick, Caledonia County, VT
Louis B. Puffer Collection

Railroad Pony truss next to Highway Bridge, East Hardwick, Caledonia County, VT
Richard Donovan Collection

Comments:
Roadway bridge adjacent to a railroad pony bridge VT/45-03-P1x. Per the Hardwick Gazette, July 11, 1907, "The new bridge near 'Brondale' farm is very nearly finished, and is a most substantial structure. It is a covered bridge." Per the Hardwick Gazette, November 8, 1927, "There are several other washouts on the railroad from Brondale farms toward East Hardwick, and the small covered highway bridge over the river near the railroad crossing near the Brondale farm buildings is also gone, as is the bridge across the river leading to the Bell road, ..."

Sources:
Hardwick Gazette, November 8, 1927.
Hardwick Gazette, July 11, 1907.

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