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Gold Brook Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Covered Bridge Rd., Stowe, Vermont
Coordinates	44°26′25.04″N 72°40′49.32″W / 44.4402889°N 72.6803667°W / 44.4402889; -72.6803667
Built	1844 (1844)
Architect	Smith, John W.
NRHP reference No.	74000224
Added to NRHP	October 1, 1974

Gold Brook Covered Bridge, also known as Stowe Hollow Bridge or Emily's Bridge, is a small wooden covered bridge in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont, carrying Covered Bridge Road over Gold Brook. Built in 1844, it is the only 19th-century covered bridge in the state built using wooden Howe trusses and carrying a public roadway. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Description and history

The Gold Brook Covered Bridge is located in the Stowe Hollow area of southeastern Stowe, carrying Covered Bridge Road across Gold Brook just north of a junction with Gold Brook Road and Stowe Hollow Road. The bridge is a single-span Howe truss, 48.5 feet (14.8 m) long and 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, with a roadway width of 13.5 feet (4.1 m). It is covered by a gabled metal roof and rests on dry-laid stone abutments. The exterior is sheathed in vertical board siding, which extends most of the way to the eaves, leaving a narrow strip open at the top. The siding extends around the portals and a short way to their insides. The bridge decking is wooden planking.

The bridge was built about 1844 by,thy and is the state's only surviving example of a Howe truss in timber on a public roadway. It is also a comparatively early example of the truss type in general; the Howe truss was patented in 1840. It is furthermore the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge in the town of Stowe.

In the media

Television

The Gold Brook Covered Bridge was featured as one of the haunted locations on the Paranormal TV series Most Terrifying Places in America episode titled "Cursed Towns", which aired on the Travel Channel in 2018. It told the legend of Emily, a teenage bride-to-be who was from a poor family. It is said by locals that in the 1850s, she fell in love with a young man from a rich family, but his parents refused the wedding. He told her to wait on the bridge for him at midnight, but when he didn't show up, she was so distraught, that she jumped off the bridge into the brook below and died. Locals report that her ghost is still lingering on the bridge that was nicknamed after her.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamoille County, Vermont
• List of Vermont covered bridges
• 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. January 23, 2007.
2. ^ Hugh Henry (1974). "NRHP nomination for Gold Brook Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-12-10. with photos from 1974
3. "Cursed Towns".

External links

• VPR Commentary on Emily's Bridge

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Lamoille County, Vermont
Districts	Elmore State Park Jeffersonville Historic District Morrisville Historic District Moscow Village Historic District Stowe Village Historic District Waterville Village Historic District
Buildings	Cambridge Meetinghouse Green Mountain Inn Johnson Railroad Depot Lamoille County Courthouse Morrisville Depot Nye Block Peoples Academy-Copley Building, Grout Observatory and Community Bandshell Stowe CCC Side Camp
Structures	Bridge 6 Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge Gates Farm Covered Bridge Gold Brook Covered Bridge Grist Mill Covered Bridge Jaynes Covered Bridge Jeffersonville Bridge Lamoille River Route 15-A Bridge Mill Covered Bridge Montgomery Covered Bridge Morgan Covered Bridge Poland Covered Bridge Power House Covered Bridge Red Covered Bridge Scribner Covered Bridge Village Covered Bridge Waterman Covered Bridge
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamoille County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

• Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• Bridges completed in 1844
• Wooden bridges in Vermont
• Covered bridges in Lamoille County, Vermont
• Buildings and structures in Stowe, Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places in Lamoille County, Vermont
• Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• Howe truss bridges in the United States