River Road Covered Bridge

River Road Covered Bridge stood in rural Troy, Vermont, carrying Veilleux Road across the Missisquoi River. Built in 1910, it was the town’s only surviving covered bridge from Vermont’s historic bridge-building era until fire destroyed it on February 6, 2021. The single-span Town lattice truss was notable not just for its local transportation role but for unusual architectural features that set it apart from typical bridges of its type, including three chords instead of four, single-pegged joints, a broad roof, and exterior timber buttressing. Its builder is unknown, but its distinctive design earned listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Troy, Vermont · United States