Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge
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The Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge
Covered bridge
A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating only a single lane of traffic. Most covered bridges are wooden; some newer ones are concrete or metal with glass sides...

 that crosses Cox Brook in Northfield, Vermont
Northfield, Vermont
Northfield is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States. It lies in a valley within the Green Mountains, and has been the home of Norwich University since 1866. The town contains the village of Northfield, where over half of its population lives. The population was 6,207 at the 2010...

 on Cox Brook Road. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1974.

The bridge is of Queen post truss design. Note that in some reference books on the topic of Vermont covered bridges, it is stated that this locality is the only place you can see one covered bridge from another one (the Northfield Falls Covered Bridge
Northfield Falls Covered Bridge
The Northfield Falls Covered Bridge, also called the Station Covered Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge that crosses the Dog River in Northfield, Vermont on Cox Brook Road...

) in the state. However this is not true as there are two covered bridges located in succession in North Hartland, Vermont.

Recent history

Like the other bridges in this locality the deck has been reinforced by I beams, sometime in the 1960s.
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