Fuller Covered Bridge

Fuller Covered Bridge
Bridge in U.S. state of Vermont
Carries	Automobile
Crosses	Black Falls Brook
Locale	Montgomery, Vermont
Maintained by	Town of Montgomery
ID number	VT-06-05
Characteristics
Design	Covered, Town lattice
Material	Wood
Total length	49 ft 6 in (15.09 m)
Width	16 ft 4.75 in (5.00 m)
Number of spans	1
Load limit	3 tons
Clearance above	11 ft 0 in (3.35 m)
History
Constructed by	Sheldon and Savannah Jewett
Construction end	1890
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bridge site in U.S. state of Vermont
Coordinates
Area	1 acre (0.4 ha)
NRHP Reference #	74000216
Added to NRHP	December 23, 1974

The Fuller Covered Bridge, also known as the Blackfalls Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge that crosses Black Falls Brook in Montgomery, Vermont on Fuller Bridge Road. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The bridge is of Town lattice design built by Sheldon & Savannah Jewett - brothers who built several bridges in the area.

Recent history

The Fuller bridge had undergone a restoration in 1981 but the very next year, at Christmas time, a logging truck destroyed the roof with its loading beam... the driver apparently oblivious to the fact. It may not have been known how the bridge had been damaged had the truck not passed the town garage with Christmas lights that had adorned the bridge and pieces of the roof dragging behind it. The trusses of the bridge were braced for the winter and repairs made the next year. In 1997 a flood threatened to wash the bridge out. In 2000, a complete reconstruction of the bridge was carried out by Blow & Cote of Morrisville, Vermont. A series of articles chronicling the work can be found at the Vermont Covered Bridges web site.