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Rocks Village Covered Bridge

Essex County, Massachusetts

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Rocks Village Covered Bridge

Photo from Massachusetts Covered Bridges

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #484100

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Description 

Draw span replaced with iron in 1873; Haverhill spans repaced with iron in 1894; West Newbury spands replaced with iron in 1912

Facts 

Overview
Lost town lattice truss covered bridge with swing truss over Merrimack River on Main Street
Location
Essex County, Massachusetts
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
Design
Town lattice through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 900.0 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Also called
Merrimack Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.81060, -70.99955   (decimal degrees)
42°48'38" N, 70°59'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/336517/4741721 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 90905 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (8,374)
Built 1828 (12)
Built during 1820s (107)
Covered (1,953)
Essex County, Massachusetts (136)
Lattice through truss (636)
Lattice truss (670)
Lost (28,464)
Lost 1890 (22)
Lost during 1890s (195)
 Massachusetts (1,204)
Movable (3,114)
Pony truss (17,011)
Replaced by new bridge (19,357)
Swing (1,561)
Through truss (16,775)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,060)
Town lattice truss (309)
Truss (35,451)

Update Log 

  • May 1, 2021: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • April 18, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • October 14, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs

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