Covered Bridge expert Jan Lewandosky has placed the year of construction at approximately 1850 based on his search of Minutes of the Selectboard of the Town of Middlebury, and his voluminous knowledge of covered bridge construction.

The bridge was originally built as a single span but inherent design problems, and heavy use, has driven almost constant improvements.

Amongst those improvements was the addition of two piers in the creek effectively dividing the bridge into 3 spans.

[2] A non-structural improvement was the addition of a walkway on the outside of the bridge by the Towns of Weybridge and Middlebury.

Several other rounds of repairs have been made and chronicled extensively at the Vermont Bridges website.