Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH
Summary
See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans
Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving covered railroad bridges in the United States. It is an excellent example of the double-web Town lattice truss used by the Boston & Maine Railroad in the late nineteenth century.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1003
Survey number: HAER NH-38
Building/structure dates: 1889 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 80000294
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Boston & Maine Railroad
Town, Ithiel
Concord & Claremont Railroad
Snow, J P
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Spivey, Justin, consultant
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
Location
West Hopkinton, 43.19477, -71.69107
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html