COVERED BRIDGES

The picture above: Go to Vt. Only On Covered Bridges

The size is 120 feet long and 14.6 feet wide. The year it was built is 1840.

 

By Elmon

Covered bridges are in Vermont and other places because people and vehicles needed to get across rivers and streams, so the wagon wheels would not get broke, and so if it rained the people and the wagon would not get wet. This is the other reason why they made covered bridges: to protect the wood roads that were under the roof.

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The most common name is the kissing bridge. Frame work lasted longer when it was covered. The roof gave the bridge a lot of support to the side walls. Some bridges were used for toll. Toll means to pay to do something. People think that the bridge in Middlebury-Weybridge is the oldest covered bridge still in use. This is one Vermont major tourist attraction and a source of pride.