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Bartonsville Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Northeast approach to the Bartonsville bridge, March 28, 2006 prior to its destruction
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Location	Bartonsville, Vermont
Coordinates	43°13′27.23″N 72°32′12.45″W / 43.2242306°N 72.5367917°W / 43.2242306; -72.5367917
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1871
Architect	Granger, Sanford
NRHP reference No.	73000201
Added to NRHP	July 2, 1973

The Bartonsville Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge in the village of Bartonsville, in Rockingham, Vermont, United States. The bridge is a lattice truss style with a 151-foot span, carrying Lower Bartonsville Road over the Williams River. It was built in 2012, replacing a similar bridge built in 1870 by Sanford Granger. The 1870 bridge, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was destroyed in 2011 in flooding caused by Hurricane Irene.

History

The bridge was built after the great flood of 1869 that changed the course of the river, replacing another covered bridge about 1/4 mile up the road where the river used to flow. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It was located on Lower Bartonsville Road, a paved road a short distance north from Vermont Route 103. Nearby, to the east, is the Worrall Covered Bridge, also built by Granger.

In the 1960s, a Town of Rockingham gravel truck fell through the bridge cutting off cars from Lower Bartonsville Village from the direct link to Vermont Route 103 until the floor was replaced. In the early 1980s extensive renovations were conducted on the bridge, including replacing the abutment on the north side of the bridge, reinforcing the original stone abutments on the south side of the bridge, and replacing the roof and the weathered siding.

Destruction by Hurricane Irene and replacement

On August 28, 2011, the bridge was destroyed by flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall from Hurricane Irene's landfall on the U.S. East Coast. An effort to rebuild the structure was supported by town officials, who voted to use the bridge's insurance money to build another covered bridge.

The new bridge was opened on January 26, 2013.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• List of Vermont covered bridges
• Old Blenheim Bridge, a covered bridge in upstate New York, also destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene; rebuilt in 2017

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Lovell, F.S. & Lovell, L.C. (1958). History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont: Including the Villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1907 – 1957 with Family Genealogies. Town of Rockingham.
3. Flooding takes toll on historic bridges Archived March 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, WCAX.com
4. Kane, Trish. "Video clips and news on covered bridge damage due to Hurricane Irene". Vermont Covered Bridges Society website. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
5. Eckholm, Erik (August 31, 2011). "Covered Bridges, Beloved Remnants of Another Era, Were Casualties, Too". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
6. Bartonsville woman who caught bridge’s destruction, now helps to rebuild it, Rutland Herald
7. Keese, Susan (November 2, 2011). "Bartonsville Bridge To Be Rebuilt". vpr.et. Vermont Public Radio. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
8. Melissa Sheketoff, WCAX-TV, Historic Bridge Back Open Archived January 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, January 26, 2013

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont
National Historic Landmarks	Naulakha Rockingham Meetinghouse
Districts	Bellows Falls Downtown Historic District Bellows Falls Neighborhood Historic District Brattleboro Downtown Historic District Canal Street–Clark Street Neighborhood Historic District Crows Nest Dickinson Estate Historic District Follett Stone Arch Bridge Historic District George–Pine–Henry Street Historic District Grafton Village Historic District Homestead–Horton Neighborhood Historic District Houghtonville Historic District Mechanicsville Historic District Middletown Rural Historic District Moore and Thompson Paper Mill Complex Newfane Village Historic District Parker Hill Rural Historic District ‡ Putney Village Historic District Rockingham Village Historic District Saxtons River Village Historic District Scott Farm Historic District Samuel Gilbert Smith Farmstead South Londonderry Village Historic District South Windham Village Historic District Stratton Mountain Lookout Tower Townshend State Park Vermont Academy Campus Historic District West Brattleboro Green Historic District West Dover Village Historic District West Townshend Village Historic District Westminster Terrace Historic District Westminster Village Historic District Whitingham Village Historic District Williams Street Extension Historic District Wilmington Village Historic District Windham Village Historic District
Buildings	Commercial Bellows Falls Times Building Broad Brook House Brooks House Estey Organ Company Factory Gas Station at Bridge and Island Streets Miss Bellows Falls Diner Tontine Building Educational/ Health Brattleboro Retreat Butterfield House Canal Street Schoolhouse District No. 1 Schoolhouse Grafton District Schoolhouse No. 2 Round Schoolhouse Vernon District Schoolhouse No. 4 Government Dover Town Hall Grafton Post Office Londonderry Town House Industrial Adams Gristmill Warehouse Bellows Falls Co-operative Creamery Complex Howard Hardware Storehouse Robertson Paper Company Complex Religious Brookline Baptist Church Christ Church First Congregational Church and Meetinghouse Grafton Congregational Church and Chapel Guilford Center Meeting House Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel Old Brick Church Pond Road Chapel Residential Corse-Shippee House Theophilus Crawford House Lewis Grout House William A. Hall House William Harris House Deacon John Holbrook House Milldean and Alexander-Davis House Park Farm Sabin–Wheat Farm Wheelock House Arthur D. and Emma J. Wyatt House Transportation Union Station
Site	Bellows Falls Petroglyph Site (VT-WD-8)
Structures	Bartonsville Covered Bridge Bridge 19 Creamery Covered Bridge East Putney Brook Stone Arch Bridge Green River Covered Bridge Green River Crib Dam Hall Covered Bridge Kidder Covered Bridge Medburyville Bridge Rice Farm Road Bridge Sacketts Brook Stone Arch Bridge Scott Covered Bridge Simpsonville Stone Arch Bridge South Newfane Bridge West Dummerston Covered Bridge West Townshend Stone Arch Bridge Williams River Route 5 Bridge Williamsville Covered Bridge Worrall Covered Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

• Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• Covered bridges in Windham County, Vermont
• Buildings and structures in Rockingham, Vermont
• Bridge disasters in the United States
• Bridges completed in 1871
• Bridges completed in 2012
• Wooden bridges in Vermont
• Former road bridges in the United States
• Transportation disasters in Vermont
• National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont
• Buildings and structures demolished in 2011
• Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
• Rebuilt buildings and structures in the United States
• Lattice truss bridges in the United States
• 1871 establishments in Vermont
• Buildings and structures destroyed by flooding