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Riverside Station or Cobb's, Windsor County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-14-98x
County: Windsor County
Township: Stockbridge
Town/Village: Riverside Station
Bridge Name: Riverside Station or Cobb's
Crosses: White River
Truss type:
Spans: 1
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: c1844
Builder:
When Lost: 27 Mar 1913
Cause: Collapsed
Latitude: N43 45.58
Longitude: W072 43.39
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Riverside Station or Cobb's Bridge, Stockbridge, Windsor County, VT Lost 1927
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Comments:
Per the Montpelier Evening Argus, July 17, 1913, "The town of Stockbridge claims $2000 from the Champlain Realty Company for that corporation's alleged share in the destruction on March 27 last of the old covered bridge in the center of the town across White River known as Cobb bridge which had stood the floods of 69 years including the historic flood of 1869. The town claims that logs belonging to the Realty Company caused the collapse of this bridge and two small bridges over Stony Brook in which streams logs were also floated by the company."

Sources:
Montpelier Evening Argus, July 17, 1913.
Allen, Richard Sanders. Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County, VT, 1962

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