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Transverse Section; West Elevation - Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston and Maine Railroad (originally Concord and Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH
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Boston and Maine Railroad
Town, Ithiel
Concord and Claremont Railroad
Snow, J P
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Spivey, Justin, consultant
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
Title
Transverse Section; West Elevation - Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston and Maine Railroad (originally Concord and Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH
Depicted place New Hampshire; Merrimack County; Hopkinton
Date 2003
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER NH-38 (sheet 5 of 8)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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Notes
  • 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
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 80000294.
Source http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/nh/nh0200/nh0277/sheet/00005a.tif
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Object location43° 13′ 29.86″ N, 71° 42′ 49.97″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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