Stony Brook -1899
The 1899 Stony Brook Covered Bridge, also called the Moseley Covered Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge that crosses Stony Brook in Northfield, Vermont on Stony Brook Road in Washington County. It is one of two surviving 19th-century King post truss bridges in the state.
The Stony Brook Covered Bridge stands in a rural area of southern Northfield, carrying Stony Brook Road across the eponymous brook in a roughly northwest-southeast orientation. It is a single-span King post truss structure, 36.5 feet long, with a total width of 19 feet and a roadway width of 16 feet (one lane). A gabled roof covers it, and its exterior is clad in vertical board siding, which extends a short way inside each portal. The siding does not extend all the way to the roof, providing an open strip between the two. The bridge rests on stone abutments that have been faced in concrete and have a deck of wooden planks.
The bridge was built in 1899 and is believed to be the last King post truss bridge to be built in the historic period of covered bridge construction in the state. It is one of only two historic bridges of this design left standing in the state, the other being the Pine Brook Covered Bridge. It is also one of five covered bridges in Northfield, representing one of the state's highest concentrations of covered bridges. In 1971 the bridge deck was strengthened by adding 5 steel I beams underneath. In 1990 the original granite abutments were faced with concrete.
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Located at: N44 07.221 W72 41.352 - WGCB # 45-12-07
Photographed in June of 2022