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BM - Goffstown Covered Bridge

Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

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Photo provided by George Lane

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Piscataquog River on Boston & Maine Railroad
Location
Goffstown, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
Status
Destroyed by fire
History
Built 1901, Burned 1976
Railroad
- Boston & Maine Railroad (BM)
Design
Double Town and Arch
Dimensions
Span length: 117.0 ft.
Total length: 117.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1975
Also called
Goffstown Covered Railroad Bridge
29-06-06x
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.01808, -71.59927   (decimal degrees)
43°01'05" N, 71°35'57" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/288194/4766101 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Goffstown
Inventory numbers
NRHP 75000125 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
WGCB 29-06-06x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 61398 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arsoned (30)
Boston & Maine Railroad (405)
Built 1901 (555)
Built during 1900s (7,431)
Covered (1,715)
Covered Railroad Bridge (66)
Destroyed by fire (206)
Goffstown, New Hampshire (2)
Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (108)
Lost (26,359)
 Lost 1976 (92)
Lost during 1970s (847)
NR-listed (2,997)
New Hampshire (693)
Railroad (16,082)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,460)
Through truss (15,720)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,256)
Truss (33,868)

Update Log 

  • July 5, 2020: New photos from Nick Boppel
  • September 16, 2015: Updated by Tony Dillon: Fixed typo
  • June 16, 2014: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com

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