Built in 1929 in the wake of Vermont's devastating 1927 floods, it is one a shrinking number of surviving truss bridges on the river.

[1] Bridge 12 is located in a rural area of northern Enosburg, northeast of the village of Enosburgh Falls.

Each truss has eight triangular panels, the central ones stiffened by counter-diagonal struts, and reaching a maximum depth of 32 feet 7.5 inches (9.944 m).

The bridge deck is concrete resting on a network of steel stringers and floor beams.

Shoemaker, and the truss elements were fabricated by the Lackawanna Steel Construction Company of Buffalo, New York.