Built in 1872 by Harrison Chamberlin in West Townshend, Vermont, this sturdy Queen post truss bridge replaced a poorly built uncovered bridge. Located on Mill Street, later Depot Road, it linked West Townshend Village with the island by crossing a setback of the West River and provided access to the mills and shops there and, after 1880, to the new West River Railroad, giving rise to the name Depot Bridge. The bridge was condemned in the 1950s when plans for the Townshend Dam placed its site in the floodplain, and in 1955 it was dismantled by the Army Corps of Engineers to clear the way for the flood-control dam and reservoir. Because no other location was found for it, Vrest Orton, then chairman of the Vermont Historical Sites Commission and founder of the Vermont Country Store, had it taken down, its boards marked, and stored at the farm of Aubrey Stratton in West Townshend. Orton intended to use the dismantled Depot Bridge in a Victorian Village he planned to build on land he had purchased within sight of Route 103 in Rockingham, Vermont, and in 1967 the bridge was moved there and reconstructed by Aubrey Stratton, shortened to a 43 foot 9 inch King post truss and renamed the Victorian Village Bridge.