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Inventory Number: VT/45-13-47x
County: Windham County
Township: Newfane
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Village
Crosses: Newfane Brook
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: 1841
Builder:
When Lost: Jun 1945
Cause: Removed
Latitude: N42 58.87
Longitude: W072 39.40
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Directions: On VT30.

Village Bridge, Newfane, Windham County, VT Built 1841 Lost Jun 1945
Richard E. Roy Collection

Village Bridge, Newfane, Windham County, VT Built 1841 Removed Jun 1945
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
Per the Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), December 13, 1878, "...the covered bridge near Oscar Ware's,. just this side of Fayetteville [Newfane], is undermined, and partly upset, the new covered bridge south of Burdett's mill is entirely gone..." The original arched portals were later squared off. Per The Burlington Free Press, May 11, 1945, "MONTPELIER, May 10. ---Bids on the new bridge across the West river at Newfane, which the war production board has just authorized, will be opened at the Statehouse at 10 a.m. May 25, the state highway board announced today. The bridge, a 69 foot steel I-beam structure with a concrete floor, will replace the present covered bridge which was built in 1841." A group had formed to rebuild it at a new site. That never happened.

Sources:
The Burlington Free Press, May 11, 1945.
Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro), December 13, 1878.
Allen, Richard S. & Morse Victor. Windham County's Famous Covered Bridges, 1960, page 20
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, No. 18, Summer 1945, page 1
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Vermont Covered Bridges, 2004, page 49

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