The bridge provides a connection between West Hartford and the village of Quechee to the south, and historically provided access to other parts of West Hartford village which were washed away in the 1927 floods.

The 1929 bridge was a Parker through truss structure, built out of rolled steel I-beams riveted together.

It was virtually identical to the bridge in Sharon, several miles upriver, which was built about the same time.

[2] The 1927 floods, the worst in the state's history, washed away all of the bridges along the White River downstream from Rochester, in the foothills of the Green Mountains.

This bridge and that in Sharon were part of a massive building program orchestrated with federal, state, and local funds, that saw the construction of about 1,600 bridges in the space of a few years.