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East Fairfield Covered Bridge
Coordinates	44°47′10″N 72°51′43″W / 44.78611°N 72.86194°W / 44.78611; -72.86194
Carries	Automobile
Crosses	Black Creek
Locale	East Fairfield, Vermont
Maintained by	Town of East Fairfield
ID number	VT-06-03
Characteristics
Design	Covered, Queen post
Material	Wood
Total length	67.3 ft (20.51 m)
Width	13.6 ft (4.15 m)
No. of spans	1
History
Construction end	1865
East Fairfield Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.	74000214
Added to NRHP	November 19, 1974
Location

The East Fairfield Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that carries Bridge Street across Black Creek in the East Fairfield village of Fairfield, Vermont. Built about 1865, it is the town's only surviving 19th century covered bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Description and history

The East Fairfield Covered Bridge is located at the western end of East Fairfield village, on Bridge Street a short way south of Vermont Route 36. It spans Black Creek, a tributary of the Missisquoi River, in a roughly northeast-southwest orientation. It is a Queen post truss structure, 68 feet (21 m) long and 16.5 feet (5.0 m) wide, with a roadway width of 13 feet (4.0 m) (one lane). It rests on abutments of dry laid stone, which have been further finished in concrete and mortar. The trusses include vertical iron roads, and are joined by a web of iron rods above to increase lateral stability. The road deck consists of planking laid perpendicular to the trusses. The exterior is finished in vertical board siding, which extends a short way inside the portals. The bridge was built about 1865; its builder is not known.

Multiple attempts to keep the bridge open were undertaken by the town during various times in recent history, but eventually it had to be closed to all traffic. In August 2008, the contracting company of Blow & Cote began reconstruction of the bridge. Work was completed and the bridge reopened to traffic on July 5, 2009.

See also

• Transport portal
• Engineering portal
• National Register of Historic Places portal
• List of covered bridges in Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Hugh Henry (1974). "NRHP nomination for East Fairfield Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-23. with photos from 1974
3. Nelson, Joe. "East Fairfield's Covered Bridge - Open To Traffic". Vermont Covered Bridge Society News website. 2009-07-06.

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont
Districts	Ballard Farm Central Vermont Railroad Headquarters Downtown Richford Historic District St. Albans Historic District
Buildings	Billado Block Sheldon Boright House Brigham Academy Community Baptist Church and Parsonage District No. 2 School District No. 8 School Enosburg Congregational Memorial Church Enosburg Opera House Evarts-McWilliams House Fairfield Street School First Congregational Church of Swanton Fletcher Union Church Georgia Plain Baptist Church Giroux Furniture Company Building Solomon Goodrich Homestead Hathaway's Tavern Houghton House Kemp-Shepard House Dr. B. J. Kendall Company L'Ecole Saintes-Anges Methodist Episcopal Church Montgomery House Ovitt Grist Mill Parish of the Holy Trinity Perley Block Moses P. Perley House Quincy Hotel Richford Primary School Richwood Estate Rockledge St. Albans Town Hall St. Ann's Episcopal Church St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church St. George's Catholic Church St. John's Episcopal Church Swanton School Sweat-Comings Company House U.S. Inspection Station-East Richford, Vermont U.S. Inspection Station-Richford, Vermont U.S. Inspection Station-West Berkshire, Vermont United States Post Office and Custom House Warner Home West Berkshire School F.W. Wheeler House Willard Manufacturing Company Building
Structures	Bridge 9 Bridge 12 Bridge Number VT105-10 Comstock Covered Bridge Douglas & Jarvis Patent Parabolic Truss Iron Bridge East Fairfield Covered Bridge Fairfax Covered Bridge Fuller Covered Bridge Hectorville Covered Bridge Hopkins Covered Bridge Hutchins Covered Bridge Longley Covered Bridge Missisquoi River Bridge Swanton Covered Railroad Bridge West Hill Covered Bridge
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

• Bridges completed in 1865
• Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• Queen post truss bridges in the United States
• Wooden bridges in Vermont
• Covered bridges in Franklin County, Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont
• Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• 1865 establishments in Vermont
• Buildings and structures in Fairfield, Vermont