The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is a
covered bridge
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
located off
Vermont Route 313
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
in
Arlington, Vermont
Arlington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,457 at the 2020 census.
History
The town of Arlington was chartered July 28, 1761, by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth, as part of the New Hampshire ...
.
The
Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
lattice truss bridge carries Covered Bridge Road across
Batten Kill
The Batten Kill, Battenkill, or Battenkill River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed October 3, 2011 river rising in Vermont that flows into New York and is a tributary ...
. It was built in 1852 and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1973. It is one of Vermont's oldest surviving bridges.
Description and history
The Arlington Green Covered Bridge is located at the village of West Arlington, crossing Batten Kill just south of Route 313. It is a single span structure, with a length of , a total width of , and a roadway width of (one lane). It rests on mortared stone abutments, of which the northern one has since been faced in concrete. Guying cables are fastened near each of its corners. The sides are finished in vertical board siding, and the roof is metal. There are five small square openings in each of the sides.
The bridge was built in 1852, and is one of the state's oldest surviving covered bridges. It is also unusual in that it has not had any 20th-century strengthening elements added, a common feature to many of the state's older bridges.
[ On August 28, 2011, the Arlington Green Covered Bridge was damaged by flooding caused by ]Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011. The ninth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2011 At ...
; it was fixed in the following months and reopened to traffic.
See also
*List of Vermont covered bridges
Below is a list of covered bridges in Vermont. There are just over 100 authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Vermont, giving the state the highest number of covered bridges per square mile in the United States. A covered bridge is conside ...
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References
External links
Arlington Green Covered Bridge
at tug44.org
{{NRHP in Bennington County, Vermont
Buildings and structures in Arlington, Vermont
Bridges completed in 1852
Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
Bridges in Bennington County, Vermont
Tourist attractions in Bennington County, Vermont
1852 establishments in Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Bennington County, Vermont
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
Wooden bridges in Vermont
Lattice truss bridges in the United States