Quechee Dam and Mill: (Satellite)
Quechee Covered Bridge: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
Quechee Gorge Dam: (Satellite, evidently the only thing left of Deweys Mills is the nearby road.)
1875 Quechee Gorge Bridge: (Bridge Hunter)
1911 Quechee Gorge Bridge: (Bridge Hutner; Satellite)
While looking for the depot in Woodstock, I noticed a couple of covered bridges marked on the satellite map. This is the only covered bridge I found later when I looked for them. A search for "covered" in Bridge Hunter shows 17 bridges.
Quechee Covered Bridge is on the right, and the brown clapboard building in the middle was the mill.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
Another view of the bridge and mill.
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
The basement of the mill now has a glass blowing shop.
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| Shelby Hudson, Oct 2025 |
The main floor is a restaurant.
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| Stacey Wilson, Nov 2025 |
The mill dam augments a natural waterfall. The mill is out-of-frame to the left.
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| RoadTrip NewEngland, Jun 2023 |
Sometimes the flow is strong enough that all of the rocks are buried under water.
I didn't notice that the bridge is actually a concrete girder bridge until I read the overview in BridgeHunter_covered: "Covered concrete beam bridge over Ottauquechee River on Waterman Hill Road."
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| Daniel Varvaroi, Apr 2025 |
This is the Quechee Gorge Dam. I wonder where the penstock on the far left side goes to.
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| luke lewis, Apr 2024 |
So when the flow is lighter, it is easier to see that this dam also augments a natural waterfall.
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| New England Photographer, Jun 2022 |
"Built 1911; Abandoned & converted to roadway use 1933; Rehabilitated 1989" [BridgeHunter_1911]
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| Photo by Jimmy Emerson via BridgeHunter_1911, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
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| Brandon Chenault, Nov 2022 |
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| Locomotive "Winooskie" tests Quechee Gulf Bridge, August, 1875 via BridgeHunter_1875 |
So most of the above structure was falsework, not a trestle. The bridge was a covered deck truss.
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| nec-sia.org via BridgeHunter_1875 |
I did find the two covered bridges by Woodstock.
1836 Taftsville Covered Bridge: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
0.5mw Hydroelectric Dam: (Satellite)
1865 Lincoln Covered Bridge: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite)
Tantsville Covered Bridge
The covered bridge and dam is obvious. The powerhouse is in the center background.
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
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| Zdenka Januskova, May 2025 |
"Built 1836; rehabilitated 1869, 1910 and 1952; Damaged by flooding/Southern span removed 2011; Reconstructed 2013" The 189' (57.6m) has two 92' (28.3m) spans. [BridgeHunter_Taftsville]
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| Brian Gingras, Oct 2025 |
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| Ed n Marla Lovell, Jul 2018 |
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| Ed n Marla Lovell, Jul 2018 |
Lincoln Covered Bridge
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| Andrew Kunkel, Aug 2017 |
"Built 1865; Renovated 1947; rehabilitated 1989" The span is 130' (39.6m). [BridgeHunter_Lincoln]
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| Street View, Sep 2024 |
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