Gates Farm Covered Bridge #2
Cambridge, VT
WGN Number: 45-08-04#2
Photo by Scott Wagner © 2006
The Gates Farm Bridge stands in a cornfield beside Route 15. The bridge was originally built as the Little Bridge over the Seymour River by George Washington Holmes in 1897, but it was moved in 1950 after the river was diverted through the farm.
An article by Bob Moore in the 2006 Winter Bridger newsletter discusses the highway and bridge rearrangement in detail.
The Covered Spans of Yesteryear website notes that "By 1994 it (the bridge) was in need of major structural repairs. In 1995 the bridge was rebuilt, raising the trusses eighteen inches but leaving the floor in its original location by suspending floor beams from the lower chord with steel rods, required to allow farm machinery to pass through the bridge". Blow and Cote of Morrisville, Vermont completed the work of rebuilding the bridge.
The 1927 flood may have moved the original bridge but Ed Barna notes that "when the Lamoille (river) flooded in the summer of 1995, the waters left marks three
feet up on the new sideboards, but the bridge remained in place". (Barna, E. (1996) Covered Bridges of Vermont. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press pg.77)
Gates Farm Covered Bridge #2 Vital Statistics
| Town: | Cambridge |
| Location: | Off of Route 15 |
| Crossing: | Seymour River |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Builder: | Blow and Cote Morrisville, Vermont |
| Truss Type: | Multiple King with Burr Arch |
| Truss Length: | 82 feet |
| Other Names: | Little |
Credits: All pictures, information and descriptions are taken from Spanning Time Vermont's Covered Bridges by Joseph C. Nelson ©1997 and the World Guide to Covered Bridges - 2009 unless otherwise specified.
