Salmond Covered Bridge
Weathersfield, VT
WGN Number: 45-14-05
Photo by Joe Nelson © 1997
James Tasker's Salmond Bridge has caring friends. It came to this place beside a park having twice been rescued from destruction.
This bridge, like its neighbor the Stoughton Covered Bridge, was first rescued when it was moved due to the Weathersfield-Springfield flood control project. Unlike the Stoughton bridge, the unfortunate Salmond bridge became a storage shed for the Town of Weathersfield for over two decades. Richard Sanders Allen described the bridge in the early 1960's as sitting "unobtrusively under the bank to the east of Vermont 131, sheathed with imitation red-brick siding and punctured with eight utility windows". (Sanders Allen, R. (1962) Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County Vermont. Brattleboro, Vermont: The Book Cellar pg. 30)
Ed Barna picks up the account of the second rescue in the mid 1980's. Ed notes that there was a group called the Committee for the Restoration of the Salmond Covered Bridge advocating for the restoration of the bridge. In the end, the townspeople voted to "restore and move the bridge to its present site".
Wright Construction of Mount Holly, Vermont "dismantled, moved, and reassembled the bridge." (Barna, E. (1996) Covered Bridges of Vermont. Woodstock, Vermont: The Countryman Press. pg. 135)
The Spring 2007 edition of the Bridger newsletter featured an article describing the Relocation and Restoration of the Salmond Bridge. The event took place on October 26, 1986.
Salmond Covered Bridge Vital Statistics
| Town: | Weathersfield |
| Location: | Henry Gould Road |
| Crossing: | Sherman Brook |
| Date: | 1880 |
| Builder: | James Tasker |
| Truss Type: | Multiple kingpost |
| Truss Length: | 53 feet |
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.
