The Butts Bridge carries Butts Bridge Road (Connecticut Route 668) over the Quinebaug River in the town of Canterbury, Connecticut.
[1] The Butts Bridge is located in a rural setting of southeastern Canterbury, spanning the Quinebaug River in a roughly east–west orientation.
[2] The bridge is at least the fourth to stand in this general area, which has been on the route of a road between Norwich and Plainfield since colonial days.
The bridge this one replaced in 1936-37 was located just upstream; traces of its abutments survive.
It was built as part of the Highway Department's emergency relief program after major flooding in 1936.