Slaughter House Covered Bridge

The Slaughter House Covered Bridge in Northfield, Vermont, carries Slaughterhouse Road over the Dog River near Northfield Falls and is one of five surviving nineteenth-century covered bridges in the town, a notably high number for Vermont. Built in 1872, it is a single-span Queen post truss on dry-laid stone abutments, measuring 59.5 feet long and 14.5 feet wide for one lane of traffic. Its wooden exterior has vertical board siding and reverse-ogee gable ends. The road once led to the slaughterhouse that gave the bridge its name, and the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

Northfield, Vermont · United States