{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Hall Covered Bridge | nrhp_type = | image = Hall Covered Bridge.jpg | caption = | location = Hall Bridge Road, Rockingham, Vermont | coordinates = {{coord|43|8|12|N|72|29|16|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Vermont#USA | built = {{Start date|1982}} | builder = Granger, Sanford | architecture = Town lattice truss | added = August 28, 1973 | area = {{convert|1|acre}} | refnum = 73000204<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Hall Covered Bridge''', located in southern Rockingham, Vermont, carries Hall Bridge Road across the Saxtons River, just north of its junction with Vermont Route 121. It is a Town lattice truss bridge, built in 1982 as a replica of a circa-1867 bridge that was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.<ref name="nris"/>
==Description and history== The Hall Covered Bridge is located in a rural area of southern Rockingham, west of the village of Bellows Falls, spanning the Saxtons River about {{convert|1.2|mi|km}} east of the village of Saxtons River. It is a single-span lattice truss bridge, based on the patent of architect Ithiel Town, and rests on stone abutments. Its sides are clad in vertical board siding, with three diamond-shaped window openings, and it is topped by a gabled metal roof.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=73000204}}|title=NRHP nomination for Hall Covered Bridge|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2015-12-04}}</ref>
The original bridge was built in 1867 by Sanford Granger, a local master bridge builder. It was, at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, one of three surviving 19th-century covered bridges in the town (out of 17 documented to exist).<ref name=NRHP/> The bridge was destroyed by an overweight truck in 1980, and a replica was built in 1982 by Milton S. Graton, whose penchant for authenticity extended to the use of oxen to move the finished bridge into place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualvermont.com/coveredbridges/hall.html|title=Hall Covered Bridge|publisher=Virtual Vermont|accessdate=2015-12-04}}</ref>
==See also== *List of Vermont covered bridges *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Vermont *List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont *National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Vermont
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==External links== {{Commons category|Hall Covered Bridge}} *{{HAER |survey=VT-40 |id=vt0166 |title=Hall Bridge, Spanning Saxtons River at Paradise Hill Road, Rockingham, Windham County, VT |photos=12 |dwgs=6 |data=24 |cap=1}}
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Category:Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Category:Bridges completed in 1867 Category:Covered bridges in Windham County, Vermont Category:Historic American Engineering Record in Vermont Category:National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont Category:Bridges completed in 1982 Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1980 Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont Category:Wooden bridges in Vermont Category:Lattice truss bridges in the United States Category:Buildings and structures in Rockingham, Vermont Category:1867 establishments in Vermont Category:1982 establishments in Vermont Category:1980 disestablishments in Vermont