Hand-hewn Timbers and Trusses
The Connecticut River slips under dozens of bridges in New Hampshire and Vermont that span architectural designs and periods as varied as the covered bridges of the 1800s and the “erector set” iron bridges of the early-mid 1900s to modern concrete crossings. Of the region’s many historic bridges, among the most cherished are its covered bridges. To learn more about them, click on the links below.
Spanning the Connecticut River (south to north):
- Cornish, NH – Windsor, VT: Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
- Columbia, NH – Lemington, VT: Columbia Covered Bridge
- Lancaster NH- Lunenburg VT: Mount Orne Bridge
- Pittsburg-Clarksville, NH: Pittsburg-Clarksville Bridge
Within New Hampshire (south to north):
- Langdon: McDermott Bridge, Cold River
- Langdon: Prentiss Bridge, Great Brook
- Cornish: Blacksmith Shop Bridge, and Dingleton Hill Bridge, Mill Brook
- Cornish: Blow-Me-Down Bridge, Blow-Me-Down Brook
- Plainfield: Meriden Bridge, Blood Brook
- Lebanon: Packard Hill Bridge, Mascoma River
- Bath: Bath Bridge and Bath-Haverhill Bridge in Woodsville, NH over the Ammonoosuc River
- Bath: Swiftwater Bridge, Wild Ammonoosuc River
Bean Road Pittsburg - Lyme: Edgell Bridge, Clay Brook
- Lancaster: Mechanic Street Bridge, Israel’s River
- Northumberland: Groveton Bridge, Ammonoosuc River
- Pittsburg: Happy Corner Bridge and River Road Bridge, Perry Stream
Within Vermont (south to north):
- Guilford: Green River Bridge, Green River
- Brattleboro: Creamery Bridge, Whetstone Brook
- Dummerston: West Dummerston Bridge, West River
- Rockingham: Bartonsville Bridge and Worrall Bridge, Williams River
- Springfield: Baltimore Bridge, unnamed brook
- Weathersfield: Upper Falls (Downers) Bridge, Black River
- West Windsor: Bests Bridge and Bowers Bridge, Mill Brook
- Hartland: Martin’s Mill Bridge, Lull’s Brook
- Hartland: Willard Bridge, Ottauquechee River
- Thetford: Sayers Bridge and Union Village Bridge, Ompompanoosuc River
- Lyndon: Chamberlin Bridge and Schoolhouse Bridge, South Branch Passumpsic River
- Lyndon: Miller’s Run Bridge, Miller’s Run
- Lyndon: Randall Bridge, East Branch of the Passumpsic River
- Lyndon: Sanborn Bridge, Passumpsic River