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This is an interesting covered bridge in that it rarely makes it into the gazetteer map books (Here is the Gazetteer that I have). You will look at it and probably wonder why?

It seems like a classic covered bridge seen throughout New England and you wouldn’t be wrong. It was modeled after the Martin covered bridge, seen down in Marshfield Vermont.

A Little History of the A.M. Foster

This covered bridge is not listed on most maps due to its origin. The A.M. Foster covered bridge never connected a road over a river. It was built because the owner simply loved covered bridges. Richard Spaulding designed and built the bridge in 1998 after purchasing this parcel of land.

The property owner built this covered bridge and placed it over a pond fed by a natural spring on his land. But there was no functional reason for the bridge except to admire its beauty. You can walk all around it and not get your feet wet. Here is a detailed history of the bridge from the Cabot Historical Society.

Locating the A.M. Foster Covered Bridge

Cabot is easy to find on any map but finding the bridge is not always so easy. I had seen pictures of the bridge and some were posted by my friends but being stubborn I wanted to find it myself. The first time near Cabot we got on Bayley Hazen Road and we actually found the Walbridge School House at the corner of Bayley Hazen Rd and Cabot Plains Rd.

In the older Vermont Gazetteer, you locate this bridge on pg 47, grid 14/I. In the newer Vermont/New Hampshire Gazetteer, you would find the bridge on page 41 and grid C/5. (See these Gazetteers on Amazon)

I had thought to find the A.M. Foster covered bridge at this location but all I saw was the schoolhouse. For those of you snickering, how was I to know that if I had just climbed the hill behind the schoolhouse, I would have found the covered bridge?

Well, being unsuccessful we made our cheese run into the Cabot Creamery, (read about Cabot Creamery here) and at the check out I asked the girl about the Foster and she gave us directions, then she said it was right next to the Waldridge Schoolhouse. (DUH!)

So Lisa and went back up to the school and we drove a little further and BOOM! There was the covered bridge.

Directions

It’s actually very easy to get to… From Cabot, take 215 north out of town and turn right onto Cabot Plains Road. At about a mile and a half from the turn, you will make a sharp turn to the right (Note the Waldbridge School on your right) and continue another 500′ and you will see the bridge down on your right. Please pull over to the right and off the road as best you can…

You have arrived!

I used a medium Canon lens (24-105mm IS L) and it allows me to get a sense of place with the covered bridge and the surrounding hills in the distance which are showing their fall colors.

Sometimes I like to get in close and focus on the covered bridge itself. This is more digital art because I blended some texture in.

The covered bridge sits over a little pond that was damned up to allow the pond to fill up from the natural springs. Off in the distance can be seen Camel’s Hump Mountain. This hill overlooking the covered bridge and Cabot Vermont, lets us enjoy the beauty of the Northeast Kingdom.

Jeff Foliage Folger

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