Robyville Bridge, Covered bridge in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
Robyville Bridge is a single-span covered bridge 76 feet (23 m) long carrying Covered Bridge Road north-south over Kenduskeag Stream in Corinth, Maine. Its modified Howe truss doubles the king posts near mid-span and some cross braces; the walls are clad in wooden shingles and the roof in asphalt shingles. The trusses rest on rough-cut granite block abutments, the southern one reinforced with concrete in the 20th century.
The Robyville area of Corinth had sawmills, possibly from the late 18th century, but how many bridges preceded this one is unknown. The 1876 bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and named a Maine Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 2002. It underwent major rehabilitation in 1984.
The name Robyville comes from the hamlet around the bridge, where sawmills had operated since the town's settlement in the late 18th century. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and named a Maine Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2002.
The bridge remains open to vehicle traffic and can be reached via Covered Bridge Road. A restoration completed in the 1980s preserved the structure for continued use.
The Robyville area around the bridge was the site of sawmills, possibly from the town's late-18th-century settlement, so the span served a lumbering community. Its southern granite abutment was reinforced with concrete in the 20th century, a repair a visitor can still pick out from the rough-cut stone.
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