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Montgomery or Lower or Potter, Lamoille County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-08-14
County: Lamoille County
Township: Waterville
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Montgomery or Lower or Potter
Crosses: North Branch, Lamoille River
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 70'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1887
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N44 42.342
Longitude: W072 45.612
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Directions: 5.6 miles northeast of jct VT108 onVT109, then just right on Montgomery Bridge Rd.

Montgomery or Lower or Potter Bridge, Waterville, Lamoille County, VT Built 1887
Bill Caswell Photo

Montgomery or Lower or Potter Bridge, Waterville, Lamoille County, VT Built 1887 or c1895
Richard E. Roy Collection

Montgomery or Lower or Potter Bridge, Waterville, Lamoille County, VT Built 1887
Bill Caswell Photo, April 25, 2009

Comments:
The Montgomery bridge was named for the Dallas Montgomery farm. In early January 1969, snow drifted 5 feet deep on one side of the roof, and the bridge started to shift sideways. Wilmer Locke wrenched it back into shape and added knee braces and two traverse iron rods across the bridge's top. Then on August 11, 1971 an asphalt truck crashed through the floor of the bridge landing upside down in the river 30 feet below. After the second incident, the bridge was reconstructed with an independent roadway, reinforced with four steel beams. The bridge was renovated in 1996 to replace all siding and the roof support posts as well as roof beams and knee braces inside the portals. In 1997 the concrete at the entrance was repaired. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1974.

Sources:
The Burlington Free Press, Thursday, August 12, 1971, Page 8
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Vermont Covered Bridges, 2004, page 102
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 144

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