[1] The bridge is of King post truss with tied arch design, one of only 3 left standing in the state.

This bridge is also one of the shortest in the state, and it at the lowest elevation being just off the shore of Lake Champlain.

During the late 1800s, the Holmes family operated what is said to be the largest apple orchard in New England, located just southwest of the bridge.

Offshore in Lake Champlain there are submerged pilings; the only remaining evidence of the pier where boats docked to load the fruit.

In 1993 the bridge was rehabilitated by Milton Graton Associates, after the Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) found it to be inadequate for normal loading.