details

Documenting North America's past & present covered bridges

Home

Jonesville or School Street, Chittenden County

If you find errors in the data please contact Bill Caswell.

If you would like to provide information on covered bridges that no longer exist from your state, or adopt a state to work on, we would certainly welcome your assistance. Please contact Trish Kane for more information.

Inventory Number: VT/45-04-24x
County: Chittenden County
Township: Richmond
Town/Village: Jonesville
Bridge Name: Jonesville or School Street
Crosses: Winooski River
Truss type:
Spans:
Length: 240'
Roadway Width:
Built: bef 1875
Builder:
When Lost: Nov 1927
Cause: Flood
Latitude: N44 22.98
Longitude: W072 56.25
See a map of the area
Topographic map of the area
Directions:

Jonesville or School Street Bridge, Richmond, Chittenden County, VT Lost 1927
Eastern Illustrating Postcard, Richard E. Roy Collection

Jonesville or School Street Bridge, Richmond, Chittenden County, VT Lost 1927
Richard E. Roy Collection

Jonesville or School Street Bridge, Richmond, Chittenden County, VT Built bef 1875 Flood Nov 1927
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
Per The Vermont Union (Lyndon), August 6, 1875, a worker repairing the bridge fell from a platform into the river and drowned. Supposedly was carried downstream during the 1927 Flood to the Richmond covered bridge, which it then helped destroy.

Sources:
The Vermont Union (Lyndon), August 6, 1875.
Burlington Weekly Free Press, August 21, 1919, Page 6
Johnson, Luther B.. Floodtide of 1927, 1927, page 117

The images in this collection may be protected under copyright law and may only be used for educational, teaching, and research purposes.
If the intended use is beyond these purposes, it is the responsibility of the user to obtain the appropriate permissions from the owner stated in the image's credits.