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Twigg-Smith Garfield, Windsor County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-14-17x
County: Windsor County
Township: West Windsor
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Twigg-Smith Garfield
Crosses: Mill Brook
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 36'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1870
Builder:
When Lost: 2002
Cause: Wind/Blown Down
Latitude: N43 27.11
Longitude: W072 29.95
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Directions: 2.4 miles southeast of jct VT106 on VT44, then walk 0.1 miles right on private road. Brownsville.

Twigg-Smith Garfield Bridge, West Windsor, Windsor County, VT Built 1870 Destroyed in wind storm 2002
Tom and Linda Burns Photo, July 12, 1992

Twigg-Smith Garfield Bridge, West Windsor, Windsor County, VT Built 1870 Destroyed in wind storm 2002
Bill Caswell Photo, April 27, 1985

Comments:
½ 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.

Source:
Nelson, Joseph C.. Spanning Time - Vermont's Covered Bridges, 1997, pages 165-166

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