Visiting Vermont, Part Six
Three more of Vermont's very pretty red covered bridges are up for this post as I continued my journey from Stowe to the small Village of Northfield located west of Montpelier. Northfield has the second highest amount of covered bridges in the state with five bridges but as it was starting to get to be late afternoon and I wanted to get back to Lyndonville before dark, I opted to just photograph three of the five covered bridges being that three of them are all within a quarter mile of each other on the same road that passes over the winding Cox Brook, a tributary of the Dog River. The first of these, the Northfield Falls Bridge aka the Station Bridge, was built in 1872 in the Town lattice truss style, a style that was widely used on many early timber bridges and later in building construction. It is the longest bridge in Northfield at 137 feet long - more than twice as long as any of the others. The Upper and Lower Cox bridges were built soon after the Northfield Falls bri...