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Item Title
LocationSpanning Blood Brook at Russell Hill Road,
Wilton, NH
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER NH-43
Building/structure dates:
1937 initial construction
Significance: Livermore Bridge is one of only seven known boxed pony trusses in North America. Of the two Town lattice examples, only the Livermore Bridge is half-through boxed pony.
Subjects
Covered BridgesTransportation
Related Names
Town, Ithiel
Moors, Marjorie Standish
Tuttle, Fred
Pajanen, Nehe
Brown, Dr. Mark M., Historian
Lowe, Jet, Photographer
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
NORTHEAST PORTAL, LOOKING SOUTHWEST BY 210 DEGREES.
PERSPECTIVE, SOUTH SOUTHEAST BY 170 DEGREES.
SOUTH PORTAL, NORTHEAST BY 35 DEGREES.
SOUTH PORTAL ABUTMENT.
BELOW DECK VIEW FROM SOUTH BANK.
ABUTMENT AND FRAMING DETAIL OF LATTICE TRUSS. NOTE ABUTMENT CONSTRUCTED OF IRREGULAR GRANITE BLOCKS.
WEST NORTHWEST BY 290 DEGREES.
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