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Kingsbury or Hyde or South Randolph, Orange County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-09-02
County: Orange County
Township: Randolph
Town/Village: South Randolph
Bridge Name: Kingsbury or Hyde or South Randolph
Crosses: Second Branch, White River
Truss type: Multiple King
Spans: 1
Length: 51'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1904
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N43 52.851
Longitude: W072 34.922
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Directions: 4.5 miles north of VT107 on VT14 and just left on Kingsbury Rd. North of East Bethel.

South Randolph Bridge, Randolph, Orange County, VT Built 1904
Bill Caswell Photo, June 1985

South Randolph Bridge, Randolph, Orange County, VT Built 1904
Richard E. Roy Collection

South Randolph Bridge, Randolph, Orange County, VT Built 1904
Bob Sheldon Photo, October 8, 2010

South Randolph Bridge, Randolph, Orange County, VT Built 1904
Bill Caswell Photo, October 3, 2015

Comments:
Per the White River Valley Herald, May 12, 1949, "A petition regarding the Leigh Smith covered bridge and signed by 60 persons residing in the East Bethel neighborhood of town, was received by the Board of Selectmen at their meeting last Thursday. The petition requests that the Selectmen hold a meeting on their recent action which clsed the covered bridge and three tenths of a mile of road in the southeastern part of town [Randolph]." Per the White River Valley Herald, May 26, 1949, the bridge that the local residents were upset about being closed was the one near Leigh Smith's on SR14 that ran west across the lands of Emma J. Lyon and LeRoy C. Kingsbury. The public seemed very set on retaining the bridge and significant print space was devoted to the petition. This bridge was in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 movie "The Trouble With Harry". It was closed in March 1958 when heavy snows collapsed the roof. Repairs were made and the bridge reopened the same year. The structure was once again closed in the summer of 1978 when it was deemed unsafe for traffic. While closed, it was used by a farmer to store equipment for the winter. It was restored and reopened in 1980. After being damaged by ice in the early 1990s, the bridge was once again closed. In 1994 it underwent major repairs and was reopened to traffic. In 2002 a new standing-seam steel roof was installed. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974.

Sources:
White River Valley Herald, May 26, 1949.
White River Valley Herald, May 12, 1949.
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Vermont Covered Bridges, 2004, page 82
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 145

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