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Stoughton or Titcomb (relocated), Windsor County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-14-04
County: Windsor County
Township: Weathersfield
Town/Village: Perkinsville
Bridge Name: Stoughton or Titcomb (relocated)
Crosses: Schoolhouse Brook
Truss type: Multiple King
Spans: 1
Length: 48'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1880 (M1959)
Builder: James and Henry Tasker
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N43 22.047
Longitude: W072 30.972
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Directions: 0.3 miles south of jct VT131 on VT106, then 0.1 miles left (opposite elementary school) on Andrew Titcomb Farm. South edge of Perkinsville.

Stoughton or Titcomb Bridge, Weathersfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1880
Bill Caswell Photo

Stoughton or Titcomb Bridge, Weathersfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1880
Richard E. Roy Collection

Stoughton or Titcomb Bridge, Weathersfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1880 (M1959)
Bill Caswell Photo, September 27, 2009

Stoughton or Titcomb Bridge, Weathersfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1880 (M1959)
Bill Caswell Photo, September 25, 2010

Stoughton or Titcomb Bridge, Weathersfield, Windsor County, VT Built 1880 Moved Sep 1959
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
12-panel truss. Private, moved 1959. With the coming of the North Springfield dam, the Salmond and Stoughton Bridges needed to be removed from the flood control basin. Per the Springfield Reporter, September 16, 1959, "Stoughton Bridge Relocated At least one of the four covered bridges in the Dam Area has found a new resting place. As your correspondent started home from Perkinsville last Thursday about 5:00 p.m., she crossed the cement bridge and was stopped by Richard Connor. She looked up toward the Sand Hill Plain road and saw a covered bridge coming toward her, the Stoughton Bridge, a rather unusual sight on a public highway. The bridge spent the night in the yard of Clifton Bradish. Then on Friday continued on its way to the property of Andrew Titcomb, where it is placed across a brook near Route 106 just south of Perkinsville. It was moved from the North Branch to a gully by Milton Graton and Sons to the Andrew Titcomb farm, across the highway from the schoolhouse. Titcomb, an architect, did the restoration work.

Sources:
Springfield Reporter, September 16, 1959.
Allen, Richard Sanders. Rare Old Covered Bridges of Windsor County, VT, 1962, page 30
Nelson, Joseph C.. Spanning Time - Vermont's Covered Bridges, 1997, pages 170-171
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 152

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