Sawyers Crossing Covered Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span covered bridge over Ashuelot River on Sawyers Crossing Road in Swanzey
- Location
- Cheshire County, New Hampshire
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1859; rehabilitated 1996
- Design
- Covered Lattice through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 77.1 ft.
Total length: 159.1 ft.
Deck width: 16.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 7.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1978
- Also called
- Cresson Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.88611, -72.28639 (decimal degrees)
42°53'10" N, 72°17'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Inventory numbers
- NRHP 78000211 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 29-03-05 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 24855 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 3,400