Gates Farm Covered Bridge

The Gates Farm Covered Bridge crosses the Seymour River off State Route 15 in Cambridge, Vermont, built in 1897 using the Burr arch design — a structural system combining multiple kingpost trusses with a long arch to handle heavy rural loads. What makes it historically singular is its timing: it is the last bridge constructed during the classic era of American covered bridge building using this particular method, effectively marking the end of a vernacular engineering tradition that had defined New England's countryside for over a century. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the bridge still carries traffic today, sitting quietly amid the open farmland of Franklin County — an unassuming but irreplaceable piece of 19th-century timber craftsmanship.