Stop 2: Bridge over Mill Brook

Continue up the hill and
down to Mill Brook.
Here a Covered Bridge
Had a very different look.

The 1901 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps list the structure over Mill Brook as a covered bridge and the “mill” left of the bridge as owned by Frank Kennedy. Then it was a “vacant factory.” A second covered bridge was located further down Union Street and a third, over this same
brook, near the American Precision Museum. The covered bridge near the mill was replaced in 1911 and the lower Union Street covered bridge was replaced in 1917. Two-thirds of covered bridges in Vermont were destroyed by the 1927 flood. The concrete arch Mill Brook Bridge near the museum was built in 1930 and rebuilt in 1943.