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Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH
Summary
Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge engineer at the Boston & Maine Railroad. The use of the arch, which is original here, effected modifications to the lattice design. Snow was an important advocate for wooden bridges into the early twentieth century.
Survey number: HAER NH-35
Building/structure dates: 1905-1906 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1977 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Boston & Maine Railroad
Town, Ithiel
New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development
Snow, Jonathan Parker
Concord & Claremont Railroad
Sugar River Railroad
Pinsley, Samuel
Ellis, J W
Providence & Worcester Railroad
Pratt, T Willis
Hazelton, David
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
Location
Claremont (N.H.), 43.37286, -72.33787
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
