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Russell Hill Road Bridge 29-06-P1

Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

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Russell Hill Road Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in October 2009

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BH Photo #147540

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Overview
Wooden boxed pony truss bridge over Blood Brook on Russell Hill Road in Wilton
Location
Wilton, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Status
Open to Pedestrians
History
Built 1860; Rebuilt 1930; Rehabilitated 1973
Design
Boxed wooden Town lattice pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 44.9 ft.
Total length: 52.2 ft.
Deck width: 16.4 ft.
Also called
Livermore Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.82940, -71.77825   (decimal degrees)
42°49'46" N, 71°46'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/272916/4745614 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Greenville
Inventory number
BH 24970 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2008)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

19th Century (8,054)
Boxed pony truss (6)
Built 1860 (45)
Built during 1860s (569)
Have street view (27,972)
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (108)
Lattice pony truss (24)
New Hampshire (703)
Open to pedestrians (4,443)
 Owned by city (5,899)
Painted red (68)
Pony truss (16,783)
Span length 25-50 feet (16,000)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,433)
Truss (34,597)
Wilton, New Hampshire (7)
Wooden deck (6,117)

Update Log 

  • September 11, 2011: New Street View added by J.P.
  • October 27, 2009: Posted HAER photos

Sources 

  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • HAER NH-43 - Livermore Bridge, Spanning Blood Brook at Russell Hill Road, Wilton, Hillsborough County, NH
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Russell Hill Road Bridge
Posted February 14, 2008, by David A. Shaw (scpry1 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I was poking around in the Library of Congress, American Memory website and came across the Russell Hill Road Bridge or Livermore Bridge (alternate name) this is the link for the page:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_I1d...

Russell Hill Road Bridge
Posted January 1, 2008, by deb miller (soccerdeb2004 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Is this, or was this, a covered bridge? In a listing of all NH covered bridges, this was listed and I can't find any other info on it. Anyone have a picture?