South Pomfret Covered Bridge
Pomfret, VT
WGN Number: 45-14-18
Photo by Bill Caswell © 2016
The town lattice truss in the South Pomfret Bridge was taken from a retired bridge in Garfield, Vermont. Placed here as a gateway to a housing development, the bridge has since blended into the community.
The Covered Spans of Yesteryear website adds the following additional information: the bridge was "half of 45-08-05, private, moved 1973. This bridge was built by Cummings Construction from wood salvaged from the Garfield Bridge which crossed the Green River at Garfield. The Garfield Bridge was strengthened in 1946 to handle construction vehicles working on the Green River Reservoir project. It was abandoned in 1965. Thurston Twigg-Smith of ASA Properties Vermont, a real estate company, bought the bridge to provide access to two of the companies properties. The trusses were taken down, cut in half, and trucked to the building sites". The other half of the original bridge bridge was the Twigg-Smith Covered Bridge. Unfortunately, this bridge was lost during a wind storm in August 2002.
South Pomfret Covered Bridge Vital Statistics
| Town: | Pomfret |
| Location: | Stage Road |
| Crossing: | Barnard Brook |
| Date: | 1870 - original bridge |
| Date Moved: | 1973 |
| Builder: | Unknown |
| Truss Type: | Town lattice |
| Truss Length: | 39 feet |
| Other Names: | Teago / Smith |
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.
