Highgate, Vermont (Highgate Falls)
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Vermontish
N 44° 56.053 W 073° 02.899
18T E 653998 N 4977495
One of a dozen truss bridges spanning the Missisquoi River.
Waymark Code: WM48ZD
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 07/23/2008
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Default view taken from modern bridge built to replace this one sometime in the eighties. Still in use as a footbridge. Adjacent to hydro dam.

Check out this short video taken during an especially rainy period in July of 2008.

Also posted in U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Parking Coordinates:: N 44° 56.012 W 073° 02.906

Date Built: 01/01/1887

Length of Span:
Approximately 225 feet

www:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_&_Jarvis_Patent_Parabolic_Truss_Iron_Bridge
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