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Swanton Railroad Bridge

Franklin County, Vermont
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Photo taken by Tom Hildreth

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Covered bridge over Missisquoi River on former St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad
Location
Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont
Status
Destroyed by fire
History
Built 1898, destroyed by arson in 1987
Design
Covered Town lattice through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 123.0 ft.
Total length: 369.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.91636, -73.12786   (decimal degrees)
44°54'59" N, 73°07'40" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/647767/4975363 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
East Alburg
Inventory numbers
NRHP 73000195 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 45433 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Built 1898 (161)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Covered (925)
Destroyed by fire (49)
Franklin County, Vermont (20)
Lattice through truss (198)
Lattice truss (265)
Lost (10,373)
Lost 1987 (60)
 Lost during 1980s (436)
NR-listed (2,354)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,300)
Swanton, Vermont (1)
Through truss (9,211)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,371)
Town lattice truss (116)
Truss (23,575)
Vermont (265)

Update Log 

  • December 1, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
  • July 23, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
  • June 6, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added NRHP data
  • May 31, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added GPS coordinates and Design
  • May 31, 2010: Added by Jacob P. Bernard

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Swanton Railroad Bridge
Posted June 3, 2010, by Todd (mrwalk08 [at] aol [dot] com)

Lord, I hope so. According to newspaper articles I read on vandals caught burning covered bridges, judges are not lenient, nor are the folks who treasure the victim span that parished.

Swanton Railroad Bridge
Posted June 1, 2010, by Spanfan

Did they ever catch the idiots who did it?

Swanton Railroad Bridge
Posted June 1, 2010, by Todd (mrwalk08 [at] aol [dot] com)

Most know I gripe on here about boneheads defacing historic bridges with cans of spraypaint... (sigh)

Well, with my father a native of Rush county, Indiana, I have a passion for the covered bridges. Reading about idiots who burn these relics get to me kind of in a worse fashion. A cigarette lighter or match is more hated by me than the stupid fools with spraypaint cans.

I do enjoy Tony Dillon's continued placing pictures of the Moscow Covered Bridge, as it rises from being taken out by a tornado. I been over that bridge as a child, and last seen it summer 2001. I would like to take a roadtrip to my father's homeland as soon as the two span structure is reopened.