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St Rocks or Reeds or Sturgess, Franklin County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-06-23x
County: Franklin County
Township: Fairfield
Town/Village: St. Rocks
Bridge Name: St Rocks or Reeds or Sturgess
Crosses: Black Creek
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
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When Lost: 1955
Cause: Replaced
Latitude: N44 51.06
Longitude: W072 55.94
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St Rocks or Reeds or Sturgess Bridge, Fairfield, Franklin County, VT Lost 1955
Richard E. Roy Collection

Comments:
Per The Burlington Free Press, January 14, 1955, "N. Fairfield Covered Bridge Torn Down, Considered Unsafe NORTH FAIRFIELD --- One of Fairfield's old landmarks has disappeared. The old covered bridge on the Pumpkin village to St. Rock's road has been torn down. Buffeted and rocked from its foundation by the hurricane of the past two years, it had been reinforced by girders twice. But this fall it was considered unsafe, torn down and replaced by the iron bridge from the center which in turn was replaced by a cement bridge."

Sources:
The Burlington Free Press, January 14, 1955.
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Vermont Covered Bridges, 2004, page 105

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