Fuller Covered Bridge
Completed originally in 1890, Fuller Covered Bridge was the last of the many covered bridges constructed by Savanard and Sheldon Jewett in Montgomery. The brothers used the Town lattice truss system, a design patented in 1820 by architect/civil engineer Ithiel Town that consists of a rectangular timber frame connected by sawn planks arranged in the form of a lattice and fastened together with trunnels (wooden pegs). The Hemlock timbers used to build the covered bridges of Montgomery were milled at the Jewett family lumber mill in West Hill. Severely deteriorated and damaged by flooding, the single-span Fuller Covered Bridge was dismantled and reconstructed in 2000. This bridge extends nearly 50 feet over Black Falls Brook.
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Marker data: Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
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