Gould's Mill Bridge

Coordinates: 43°16′22″N 72°27′16″W / 43.27278°N 72.45444°W

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Gould's Mill Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

view of the west side

Location	Town Hwy. 66 (Paddock Rd.) over the Black River, Springfield, Vermont
Coordinates	43°16′22″N 72°27′16″W / 43.27278°N 72.45444°W / 43.27278; -72.45444
Area	less than one acre
Built	1929 (1929)
Built by	Boston Bridge Works
Architectural style	Baltimore through truss
MPS	Metal Truss, Masonry, and Concrete Bridges in Vermont MPS
NRHP reference No.	05001589^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 1, 2006

The Gould's Mill Bridge is a historic Baltimore through truss bridge, carrying Paddock Street across the Black River in Springfield, Vermont. The bridge was built by the Boston Bridge Works Company in 1929 after major flooding in 1927, and is one of the state's few examples of a Baltimore truss. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.^[1]

Description and history

The Gould's Mill bridge stands in the village of Goulds Mill, south of the main village center of Springfield, and a short way west of the Eureka Schoolhouse. The bridge is a single-span steel Baltimore through truss structure, resting on concrete abutments. The span is 160 feet (49 m), with a roadway width of 23 feet 1 inch (7.04 m) and a portal clearance of 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m). The Baltimore truss is a variant of the Pratt truss in which extra vertical members are added to the lower sections of each panel.^[2] The bridge carries two lanes of traffic and the Toonerville Rail Trail, and was last rehabilitated in 2009.

The bridge was built in 1929, replacing a railroad bridge that was washed away in Vermont's devastating 1927 floods. The bridge has asymmetrical elements in its truss panels, due in part to its original use as a railroad bridge; this early use also mandated its skewed alignment across the river, to accommodate the rails of the Springfield Terminal Railway Company, whose route is now taken by the rail trail. It was also built for heavier loads than road bridges due to the weight of railroad engines and cargos. At the time of its listing on the National Register in 2006, it was one of two Baltimore trusses in use as a highway bridge in the state.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b William Thrane; Robert McCullough (2005). "NRHP nomination for Gould's Mill Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-06. with photos from 2005

National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Vermont

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Commercial	Aiken Stand Complex Fox Stand F. H. Gillingham & Sons Locust Creek House Complex Charles Marsh Law Office Pollard Block Progressive Market Simons' Inn Windsor House
Educational	Abbott Memorial Library Beaver Meadow School Black River Academy Eureka Schoolhouse Hartford Library Ludlow Graded School Park Street School Root School South Reading Schoolhouse Spencer Hollow School
Government	Damon Hall Fire District No. 2 Firehouse Reading Town Hall
Industrial	Bridgewater Woolen Mill Royalton Mill Complex
Religious	Beaver Meadow Union Chapel Cavendish Universalist Church Congregational Church of Ludlow Old Christ Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Residential	Atherton Farmstead Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House Twing Buckman House Rev. George Daman House Dewey House Wentworth and Diana Eldredge House Ezekiel Emerson Farm Farrar-Mansur House Joseph Fessenden House Reverend Dan Foster House Fowler-Steele House Gate of the Hills Daniel Gay House Glimmerstone Greenwood House Harrington House Hartness House Jeffrey House Wales N. Johnson House Juniper Hill Farm-Maxwell Evarts House Lockwood-Boynton House Luce Farm Maple Hill Farm Joseph and Daniel Marsh House McKenstry Manor Meeting House Farm Owen Moon Farm NAMCO Block Old Constitution House Aaron Jr. and Susan Parker Farm Zachariah Spaulding Farm Walter and Sylvia Stockmayer House Jedediah Strong II House David Sumner House John Wilder House

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‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.

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