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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 ...
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
Printable version; In other projects ... Contoocook Railroad Bridge: 1849, 1889, 1936 January 11, 1980: Contoocook ... West Hopkinton Merrimack: Long patent truss ...
Contoocook Railroad Depot after renovations completed in 2005. The Contoocook Riverway Association bought the depot from the town of Hopkinton for one silver dollar in 1999. The covered bridge, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned by the State of New Hampshire.
Hopkinton is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.The population was 5,914 at the 2020 census. [2] The town has three distinct communities: Hopkinton village, mainly a residential area in the center of the town; Contoocook, the town's business hub, located in the north; and West Hopkinton, within the more agricultural portion of the town.
Four covered bridges span the river, one in the town of Henniker, one on the Hancock-Greenfield line, and two in the town of Hopkinton, New Hampshire with one being in the village of Contoocook, and the other in the populated place of West Hopkinton. Residents and tourists have made the Contoocook popular for fishing and whitewater boating.
Sulphite Railroad Bridge: Abandoned Pratt truss: 1896 2003 Boston and Maine Railroad: Winnipesaukee River: Franklin: Merrimack: NH-38: Contoocook Railroad Bridge: Extant Town lattice truss: 1889 2003 Concord and Claremont Railroad: Contoocook River: Hopkinton
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad: HTW 1886 1971 N/A Hopkinton Railroad: NH: 1870 1884 Milford and Woonsocket Railroad: Hopkinton Branch Railroad: NH: 1869 1870 Hopkinton Railroad: Hopkinton and Milford Railroad: NH: 1867 1870 Hopkinton Railroad: Horn Pond Branch Railroad: B&M: 1852 1929 Housatonic Railroad: 1842 1892 New York, New Haven ...