Gates Farm Covered Bridge

The Gates Farm Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that crosses the Seymour River off State Route 15 in Cambridge, Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The bridge is of Burr arch design, built by George W. Holmes. The Seymour River originally emptied into the Lamoille River further upstream of where it does currently. A bridge called the Little Covered Bridge crossed the Seymour River close by to where the Cambridge Covered Bridge crossed the Lamoille River, both of them on the same highway (Vermont Route 15). In 1950, the Seymour River's course was changed so that it no longer crossed the highway and instead emptied downstream of the Cambridge Bridge, making the Little Bridge unneeded. In diverting...