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A map of numbered covered bridges in New Hampshire, 1967 Stark Covered Bridge, built in 1857, over the Upper Ammonoosuc River Contoocook Railroad Bridge is the oldest covered railroad bridge of its kind in the United States Conway is home to the Saco River Bridge, built in 1890 Sign for NH Covered Bridge No. 2 (Coombs Covered Bridge) along NH Route 10
Location (in Maine) Built Length Truss Notes Union Falls Bridge Dayton: 1860 112 feet (34 m) Unknown A covered bridge built at Union Falls, a village that used to be in Dayton. It was blown up in 1921. [2] Watson Settlement Bridge: Littleton: 1911 170 feet (52 m) Howe: Farthest north and the youngest of Maine's original covered bridges.
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Ashuelot Covered Bridge: ca. 1864: February 20, 1981: Ashuelot: Cheshire: Town lattice truss Bath Covered Bridge
Originally built between 1849–50, the bridge was substantially re-built in 1889 to replace the lighter covered railroad bridge. Having been built by the former Concord and Claremont Railroad (acquired by the Boston & Maine Railroad in 1887), the bridge is the oldest of four surviving double-web Town lattice railroad bridges, and is the oldest [2] extant covered railroad bridge in the United ...
[5] In 2006, it was reported that there are 54 surviving bridges administered by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, the most famous being the Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge (1866), spanning the Connecticut River from Cornish, New Hampshire to Windsor, Vermont; this bridge was formerly the longest wooden covered bridge in the ...
New Portland Wire Bridge: 1866: January 12, 1970: New Portland: Somerset: Possibly the only surviving wire (suspension) bridge in the United States. It has covered, timber framed towers. Porter-Parsonfield Bridge: 1876: February 16, 1970: Porter
The weight limit on the bridge was 3 tons (2,700 kilograms), and the dump truck carrying crushed stone was “multiple times that,” said Paul Merrill, spokesperson for the Maine Department of ...
The Sulphite Railroad Bridge, also known locally as the Upside-Down Covered Bridge is a historic railroad bridge in Franklin, New Hampshire.The bridge was built circa 1896-7 to carry the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad across the Winnipesaukee River between Franklin and Tilton.