Gorham Covered Bridge

The Gorham Covered Bridge spans Otter Creek in a rural area of Pittsford and Proctor, Vermont, carrying Gorham Bridge Road. Built in 1841 by Abraham Owen and Nicholas M. Powers, it is one of Vermont's oldest surviving covered bridges. Powers, a prominent 19th-century bridgewright, was then an apprentice to Owen. The bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss structure, 114 feet long, resting on stone abutments faced with concrete. It has been reinforced with laminated beams under the road deck, which is 18 feet wide. The exterior features vertical board siding that stops short of the roof line, topped by a gabled corrugated metal roof. The siding extends to the portal faces and partially inside the portals.

The bridge connects northern Proctor and southern Pittsford in Rutland County. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. At the time of its listing, it was one of three surviving Vermont bridges known to have been built by Powers. The structure is oriented east–west across the north-flowing Otter Creek, serving as a minor side road that forms the town boundary at that point.