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The Kingsley Covered Bridge (also called the Mill River Bridge) is a wooden
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 ...
carrying East Street across the Mill River in
Clarendon, Vermont Clarendon is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,412 at the 2020 census. Clarendon spans U.S. Route 7 and is split by the highway, the Cold River and Mill River, Otter Creek, and the Green Mountains into the ...
. Built about 1870, it is the town's only surviving 19th-century covered bridge. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1974.


Description and history

The Kingsley Covered Bridge is located west of
Vermont Route 103 Vermont Route 103 (VT 103) is a north–south state highway in southern Vermont, United States. It runs from U.S. Route 5 (US 5) in Rockingham in the east to US 7 in Clarendon near Rutland in the west. The Vermont Country Store's second branc ...
and just under the landing strip for the Rutland Airport on East Street Extension off Gorge Road, a paved road that turns to dirt after crossing the bridge. It is adjacent to the Kingsley Grist Mill Historic District, consisting of a restored mill and houses. The bridge has a 3-ton weight limit. The bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss structure, long and wide, with a roadway width of (one lane). The trusses rest on
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 ...
that have been faced in concrete. The exterior is finished in vertical board siding, which extends from the sides, around the portals, and just inside the portals. It has a roof of corrugated metal. The bridge bears a sign claiming to have been built in 1836, but the National Register nomination claims a construction date of about 1870. The bridge was built by Timothy K. Horton (1814-1896), and is the town's last surviving 19th-century bridge. The site has apparently had a bridge since the late 18th century, with references to a crossing being authorized there in 1788.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rutland County, Vermo ...
* List of Vermont covered bridges * List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont


References

{{NRHP in Rutland County, Vermont Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Covered bridges in Rutland County, Vermont Buildings and structures in Clarendon, Vermont Bridges completed in 1836 Wooden bridges in Vermont National Register of Historic Places in Rutland County, Vermont Historic district contributing properties in Vermont Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Lattice truss bridges in the United States