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The Hall Covered Bridge, located in southern
Rockingham, Vermont Rockingham is a Town in Windham County, on the southeastern Vermont border in the United States, along the Connecticut River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,832. Rockingham includes the incorporated villages of Bellows Falls and Sa ...
, carries Hall Bridge Road across the
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, just north of its junction with
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. It is a
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bridge, built in 1982 as a replica of a circa-1867 bridge that was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980. The bridge was listed on the
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in 1973.


Description and history

The Hall Covered Bridge is located in a rural area of southern Rockingham, west of the village of
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, spanning the
Saxtons River The Saxtons River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Vermont, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its watershed covers and a ...
about east of the village of
Saxtons River The Saxtons River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Vermont, a tributary of the Connecticut River. Its watershed covers and a ...
. It is a single-span lattice truss bridge, based on the patent of architect
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, and rests on stone
abutments An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end which provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls ...
. Its sides are clad in vertical board siding, with three diamond-shaped window openings, and it is topped by a gabled metal roof. The original bridge was built in 1867 by Sanford Granger, a local master bridge builder. It was, at the time of its listing on the
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in 1973, one of three surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town (out of 17 documented to exist). The bridge was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980, and a replica was built in 1982 by Milton S. Graton, whose penchant for authenticity extended to the use of oxen to move the finished bridge into place.


See also

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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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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Vermont __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Vermont. Bridges References External links {{HAER list, structure=bridge *List *List Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. sta ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Vermont. See also * List of covered bridges in Vermont * List of non-authentic covered bridges in Vermont References {{DEFAULTSORT:List ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Verm ...


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