Churchill Bridge, 1797 - Buckfield, Oxford County
Located south of Route 117 on Mountain Road in rural Oxford County, the Churchill Bridge is a rare surviving eighteenth-century span. The bridge is composed of dry laid stone, including five large rectangular slabs laid side to side. It is approximately twenty feet long and ten feet wide and the opening over Bennett Stream is approximately seven feet. The Churchill Bridge exemplifies common bridge building practices in the late eighteenth century, where the abundance of large slabs of stone in New England provided settlers and farmers with material for crossing small to modest waterways.