Lincoln Covered Bridge West Woodstock
— — the river runs slow under old pine.
Not only on a wall.
“A short single-span bridge on River Road, built in 1877 to carry farm wagons across the Ottauquechee. The truss design is unusual enough that engineers still come to look at it. In late October the maples on the far bank turn the inside of the bridge gold for about an hour each afternoon, and the planks knock under tyres the way they did a hundred and forty years ago. — from the studio
Lincoln Covered Bridge West Woodstock, on ceramic.
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The Lincoln Bridge crosses the Ottauquechee River on River Road in West Woodstock, Vermont, about three miles west of the village green. It was built in 1877 by B. H. and R. W. Pinney, two local bridgewrights, and named for the recently assassinated president. The single-span structure is 136 feet long and carries one lane of traffic. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and remains in everyday use, one of five covered bridges still standing in the town of Woodstock.
The bridge is built on a Pratt truss with a laminated wooden arch, a hybrid that is rare in American covered-bridge engineering. Only a handful of surviving spans in the country use this combination. The arch is laid up from sawn spruce planks bolted together and rises through the line of the truss, doing most of the work the truss alone would otherwise carry. The portals are weathered red plank with white trim, and the interior smells of dry pine and creosoted floorboards even on damp mornings.
Woodstock sits in the Ottauquechee valley where peak foliage usually lands the first or second week of October. The maples directly above the bridge turn early because the river cools the air a few degrees below the slope. By late November the road is plowed but quiet, and the bridge frames a stretch of black water and bare birch. The town keeps the bridge open year-round, with a five-ton load limit and a clearance of eight feet six inches. Locals drive it daily.