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If you would like to provide information on covered bridges that no longer exist from your state, or adopt a state to work on, we would certainly welcome your assistance. We have designed a form that will assist you in your research and also indicate the type of information we would like to record on each bridge. Once completed, this listing will be a tremendous wealth of historical information. Please contact Trish Kane for more information.

Inventory Number: VT/45-12-59x
County: Washington County
Township: Moretown
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Ashley
Crosses: Mad River
Truss type:
Spans: 1
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built:
Builder:
When Lost: Nov 1927
Cause: Flood
Latitude: N44 15.38
Longitude: W072 45.43
See a map of the area
Directions: About a half mile below (north) of Moretown village.

Ashley Bridge, Moretown, Washington County, VT Flood Nov 1927
Richard Sanders Allen Collection, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
Richard Sanders Allen's notes in the NSPCB archives described the locations of the Moretown covered bridges lost during the 1927 flood - "Below Moretown village the covered bridge to the Miner Fielder place departed, also the Ashley bridge half a mile below the village and the covered structure at Harold Austin's further down."

Sources:
NSPCB Archives, Richard Sanders Allen Collection, Paper Files, Vermont Lists & Maps, Folder 1
Roy, Richard E.. All Time List of Vermont Covered Bridges, 1995