Quechee Covered Bridge
— — a bridge a flood took, and the village built back.
Not only on a wall.
“The Quechee Covered Bridge crosses the Ottauquechee River right above the falls that turn the wheel at Simon Pearce. In late August of 2011, Tropical Storm Irene came up the valley and tore the bridge apart. The village rebuilt it the next year on the original stone abutments, in the same single-span Town lattice form, with timbers cut to the original drawings. It opened back to traffic in 2012. The new wood will weather grey on the same schedule the old wood did. from the studio
Quechee Covered Bridge, on ceramic.
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The Quechee Covered Bridge crosses the Ottauquechee River in the village of Quechee, in the town of Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont. It sits directly above the small falls that powered the J. C. Parker & Company woolen mill from 1869, the building Irish glassblower Simon Pearce reopened as his glassworks and restaurant in 1981. The bridge is a single-span structure roughly 90 feet long, carrying Main Street across the river just east of U.S. Route 4. The original 1970 covered bridge was destroyed by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene on August 28, 2011.
Tropical Storm Irene made landfall on the New Jersey coast on August 27, 2011, and tracked north overnight. By the morning of August 28 the Ottauquechee River had risen well above any recorded flood stage; the river ripped through downtown Quechee and carried away most of the original covered bridge. Reconstruction began the following year on the original 1970 stone abutments. The Vermont Agency of Transportation oversaw the rebuild, completed in 2012, in a single-span Town lattice form chosen to honor the village's covered-bridge tradition. The new bridge carries vehicle traffic year-round.
Quechee village sits about six miles west of White River Junction and five miles east of Woodstock, on U.S. Route 4. The bridge crosses Main Street into the small village center, where the Simon Pearce mill restaurant overlooks the falls from the south bank. Quechee Gorge — the 165-foot-deep cleft sometimes called Vermont's Little Grand Canyon — is one mile downstream, with public viewing from the Route 4 bridge. There is no admission for the covered bridge or the gorge. Best photographed in October from the south bank, with the falls and the bridge portal in one frame.