Martin's Mill Covered Bridge (Hartland, Vermont)
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The Martin's Mill Covered 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 ...
spanning Lull's Brook on Martinsville Road in
Hartland, Vermont Hartland is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,446 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Hartland, Hartland Four Corners, and North Hartland. History Hartland, originally named Hertford, was cha ...
. Built about 1880, it is one of two surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town. It 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 v ...
in 1973.


Description and history

The Martin's Mill Covered Bridge is located about east of
United States Route 5 U.S. Route 5 (US 5) is a north–south United States highway running through the New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Significant cities along the route include New Haven, Connecticut; Hartford, Connecticut; and Springfi ...
on Martinsville Road in a rural wooded area of southern Hartland, with the highway bridges of
Interstate 91 Interstate 91 (I-91) is an Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States. It provides the primary north–south thoroughfare in the western part of the region. The Interstate generally follows the course of the Connecti ...
rising just to its east. The bridge is a single span
Town lattice A lattice bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses many small, closely spaced diagonal elements forming a lattice. The lattice Truss Bridge was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town. Originally a design to allow a substantial bridge to be ma ...
truss, resting on concrete
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 ...
. It is long, with portals overhanging the ends by . Its total width is , with a roadway width of (one lane). The exterior of the bridge is clad in vertical board siding, which wraps around for a short distance on the insides of the portals. The roof is metal. with The bridge was built about 1880 by James Tasker, who covered bridge historian R.S. Allen describes as one of the most prolific bridgewrights in Windsor County. Tasker most often built bridges that were a modified version of a kingspost truss; this bridge is the more common Town lattice style. It is, along with the Willard Covered Bridge, one of two surviving 19th-century covered bridges in Hartland.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Verm ...
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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 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 ...


References

{{NRHP in Windsor County, Vermont Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Vermont Bridges completed in 1880 Covered bridges in Windsor County, Vermont Buildings and structures in Hartland, Vermont Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Wooden bridges in Vermont Lattice truss bridges in the United States 1880 establishments in Vermont