A complete guide to more than 200 covered bridges in the six New England states.
This work documents all extant covered bridges--vehicle, railroad and pedestrian--in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
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A few remnants remain the same, and still evoke old New England. This book shows how there historical bridges have fared in the modern world.
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The painting is now on display in the Toledo Museum of Art . The covered bridges of Connecticut and Rhode Island were almost exclusively built using one of two truss designs ... One THE BRIDGE DESIGNERS H William Howe , from Spencer 10.
The interior of the Hockanum Bridge , as seen during an inspection by the state bridge division , is pictured here in 1928. In his description of the bridge in Covered Bridges of the Northeast , Richard Sanders Allen wrote that " a ...
His boxed truss design for bridges, first patented in 1830, was used extensively across the country for more than 20 years. Bement Bridge in Bradford ... Built in 1866 as a toll bridge, it is the longest covered bridge in the Northeast.
Maine's Covered Bridges offers views of these structures that once graced the state's roads and railroads, many of them in the Oxford Hills and Western Mountains regions.
This book includes the three Historic Covered Bridges in Connecticut, along with the oldest covered bridge in Maine, and a few other covered bridges we found in our travels.
Descriptions to all of New England's 180 Remaining Historic Covered Bridges, as well as color photos of each one. **GPS Positions **Written Driving Directions** **Instructions for 10 Self-Guided Tours spread throughout the Region **Basic ...