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Cheshire Toll Bridge (1906)
Photos
1906 Postcard
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BH Photo #493824
Description
Built for the Springfield Electric Railway Co. to replace a covered bridge at this site.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Connecticut River on Claremont Road.
- Location
- Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, and Windsor County, Vermont
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1906; replaced 1930.
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Railroads
- - Interurban
- Springfield Electric Railway Co.
- Springfield Terminal Railway (ST)
- Design
- (2)9-panel, pin-connected Pratt through truss
(1)8-panel, pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 163.0 ft.
Total length: 600.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.26048, -72.42733 (decimal degrees)
43°15'38" N, 72°25'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/708810/4792954 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 92525 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 22, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- August 30, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added categories "9-panel truss", "8-panel truss", "Stone piers", "Lattice Railing"
- September 5, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 30, 2021: Added by Chester Gehman
Sources
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Paul Plassman