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Big Cambridge, Lamoille County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-08-49x
County: Lamoille County
Township: Cambridge
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Big Cambridge
Crosses: Lamoille River
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 1
Length: 186'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1845
Builder: Farewell Wetherby
When Lost: 1951
Cause:
Latitude: N44 38.87
Longitude: W072 52.34
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: At the northeast edge of Cambridge Village on what is now VT15.

Big Cambridge Bridge, Cambridge, Lamoille County, VT Built 1845 Lost 1951
Postcard postmarked 1909, Richard E. Roy Collection

Big Cambridge Bridge, Cambridge, Lamoille County, VT Built 1845 Lost 1951
Richard E. Roy Collection

Big Cambridge Bridge, Cambridge, Lamoille County, VT Built 1845 Lost 1951
Louis B. Puffer Collection

Comments:
15-panel truss. Per the News and Citizen (Morrisville), September 3, 1885, "CAMBRIDGE. Repairs on the covered bridge over the Lamoille are still in progress, and the crossing of the river is made at the ford, just below the bridge." Per The Suburban List (Essex Junction), September 29, 1949, the two covered bridges at Cambridge were to be replaced by a new 400-foot bridge. The smaller covered bridge was to be preserved as a privately-owned crossing nearby and the larger span had been acquired by Mrs. J. Watson Webb and was to be dismantled and moved to the Shelburne museum. The bridges were thought to date to about 1870. The big bridge was claimed (in error) to be the last of the divided two-lane covered bridges in Vermont. Moved to Shelburne Museum in 1951, double barrel, now VT-04-06.

Sources:
The Suburban List (Essex Junction), September 29, 1949.
News and Citizen (Morrisville), September 3, 1885.
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Vermont Covered Bridges, 2004, page 101

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