Osgood Bridge, Spanning Beebe River, Perch Pond Road, Campton Station, Grafton County, NH
Summary
Significance: The bridge is one of 25 low Warren truss metal highway bridges extant in New Hampshire. Constructed in 1899, the bridge is one of the state's earliest examples of short-span highway bridges employing the low Warren truss design, combined with all-steel materials and riveted connections. The structure is one of three identical bridges erected in Campton in 1898-1899 by the Vermont Construction Company of St. Albans, Vermont, northern New England's sole bridge builder of the period...
Survey number: HAER NH-10
Building/structure dates: 1899 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1960 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1960
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Vermont Construction Company
Babbitt, E N
Tomkinson, A E
Hussey, O B
Hawkins, Richard F
Gould, Ernest, photographer
Closs, Christopher, historian
Location
campton station, 43.85368, -71.65091
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