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Brown Bridge, Spanning Cold River, Upper Cold River Road, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, VT

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Brown Bridge, Spanning Cold River, Upper Cold River Road, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, VT

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Summary

Significance: Brown Bridge is one of the best-designed examples of the Town lattice truss, a widely used style of timber bridge framing. It is also notable as the last bridge by Nichols M. Powers of Clarendon, one of Vermont's best-known bridge builders.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N984
Survey number: HAER VT-28
Building/structure dates: 1880 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74000250

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Powers, Nichols M
Town, Ithiel
Streeter, George
Lloyd, R
Plumley, F M
Knight, A
Gleason, Charles
Wilcox, H W
Chaplin, G W
DM White & Co
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
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Location

Shrewsbury43.55244, -72.87447
Google Map of 43.5524375, -72.87446790000001
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