Misplaced Pages

Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge
Bridge in U.S. state of Vermont
Coordinates	44°10′23″N 72°39′11″W / 44.173°N 72.653°W / 44.173; -72.653
Carries	Automobile
Crosses	Cox Brook
Locale	Northfield, Vermont
Maintained by	Town of Northfield
ID number	VT-12-10
Characteristics
Design	Covered, Queen post
Material	Wood
Total length	56.75 ft (17.30 m)
Width	15.5 ft (4.72 m)
No. of spans	1
Clearance above	12 ft (3.66 m)
History
Constructed by	unknown
Construction end	1872 (1872)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Show map of VermontShow map of the United States
Coordinates	44°10′22″N 72°39′09″W / 44.17278°N 72.65250°W / 44.17278; -72.65250
Area	1 acre (0.4 ha)
NRHP reference No.	74000262
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1974

The Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge that crosses Cox Brook in Northfield, Vermont on Cox Brook Road. Built in 1872, it is one of five surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town, in the only place in Vermont where two historic bridges are visible from each other. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Description and history

The Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge is one of three 19th-century covered bridges that carry Cox Brook Road within a span of 0.25 miles (0.40 km) near the village of Northfield Falls. The three Northfield bridges stand within a quarter mile of one another. The Northfield Falls Covered Bridge, from which this bridge is visible, spans the Dog River near the mouth of Cox Brook, while this bridge and the Upper Cox Brook Covered Bridge both span Cox Brook. the Slaughterhouse Bridge stand slightly below the three bridge. This bridge is a Queen post truss design, 56.5 feet (17.2 m) long and 18.5 feet (5.6 m) wide, with a roadway width of 15.5 feet (4.7 m) (one lane). It is covered by a metal roof, and its exterior is clad in vertical board and batten siding painted red. The siding extends a short way into each portal. The bridge rests on abutments that are either stone faced in concrete, or have been completely rebuilt in concrete. The wooden bridge deck is supported by four steel I-beams; the trusses now carry only the bridge's superstructure.

This locality is the only place in Vermont where one can see a historic covered bridge over one stream from another one over a different stream. There are two covered bridges located in succession over channels of the Ottauquechee River in North Hartland, Vermont: one of those, the Willard Covered Bridge is a 19th-century bridge, while the other is a modern construction.

This bridge was built about 1872; its builder is unknown. Its bridge deck supports were replaced by I-beams in the 1960s.

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 Washington 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 Lower Cox Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-24. with photos from 1974
3. Evans, Benjamin and June. New England's Covered Bridges. University Press of New England, 2004. ISBN 1-58465-320-5

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont
National Historic Landmark	Socialist Labor Party Hall Vermont State House
Districts	Barre Downtown Historic District Beck and Beck Granite Shed Currier Park Historic District East Calais Historic District Goddard College Greatwood Campus Kents Corner Historic District Mad River Glen Ski Area Historic District ‡ Mad River Valley Rural Historic District McLaughlin Farm Mill Village Historic District Montpelier Historic District North Calais Village Historic District Plainfield Village Historic District Roxbury Fish Hatchery Vermont State Hospital Historic District Waitsfield Common Historic District Waitsfield Village Historic District Warren Village Historic District Waterbury Village Historic District
Buildings	Aldrich Public Library Allenwood Farm Athenwood and the Thomas W. Wood Studio Barre City Hall and Opera House Central Vermont Railway Depot Colby Mansion College Hall Parley Davis House East Village Meetinghouse Gale-Bancroft House Green Mountain Seminary Italian Baptist Church Jones Brothers Granite Shed Jones–Pestle Farmstead Joslin Farm Lareau Farmstead Chauncey B. Leonard House Martin Covered Bridge Mayo Building National Clothespin Factory Nichols House Old Red Mill Old West Church Reynolds House Scampini Block E. L. Smith Roundhouse Granite Shed Joshua Twing Gristmill Union Co-operative Store Bakery Union Meetinghouse Waterbury Center Methodist Church Wheelock Law Office Theodore Wood House Woodbury Graded School Woodbury Town Hall Worcester Town Hall Worcester Village School
Structures	Bridge 31 Bridge No. 27 Center Road Culvert Coburn Covered Bridge Great Eddy Covered Bridge Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge Middlesex–Winooski River Bridge Northfield Falls Covered Bridge Pine Brook Covered Bridge Slaughter House Covered Bridge Stony Brook Covered Bridge Upper Cox Brook Covered Bridge Warren Covered Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

• Buildings and structures in Northfield, Vermont
• Bridges completed in 1872
• 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 Washington County, Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont
• Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• 1872 establishments in Vermont