Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge
Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge | |
43°27′51″N 72°22′9″W / 43.46417°N 72.36917°W / 43.46417; -72.36917 | |
Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
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Built | 1882 (1882) |
Built by | Tasker, James |
Architectural style | Kingpost Truss |
NRHP reference No. | 78000221[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 8, 1978 |
The Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge, also known as the Cornish Mills Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge, carrying Root Hill Road over Mill Brook in Cornish Mills, New Hampshire. Built in 1882, it is one of the state's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1] It carries one lane of traffic, with a posted weight limit.
Description and history
The Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of New Hampshire Route 12, on Root Mill Road just south of Town House Road. The bridge is a single span King post truss structure running 79 feet (24 m), resting on an original stone abutment and a 1954 concrete abutment. Its original wood-shingle roof has been replaced by corrugated metal. Only the lower half of the trusses are sheathed with vertical planking; the upper half is exposed. The upper portion of the portals are finished in vertical board siding. Its interior is 14.5 feet (4.4 m) wide, carrying one lane of traffic.[2]
The bridge was built in 1882 by James Tasker, a local builder, at a cost to the town of $812.[2] It underwent a major restoration in 1983 by Milton Graton, after which there was a rededication ceremony attended by one of Tasker's descendants.[3] The bridge was damaged in 2016 when a school bus (overweight for the posted limit, and overheight for its portals) crossed the bridge; the damage was repaired and the bridge reopened several months later.[4]
See also
Other covered bridges in Cornish
- Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge
- Blacksmith Shop Bridge, foot traffic only
- Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
Covered bridges in nearby West Windsor, Vermont
- Bowers Covered Bridge
- Best's Covered Bridge
Lists of bridges
National Register listings of area bridges
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
- List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
- ^ "Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge". State of New Hampshire. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
- ^ "Historic Covered Bridge Back in Operation After Bus Accident". New Hampshire Public Radio. June 2016. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
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- Central Business District
- Charlestown Main Street Historic District
- Lower Village District
- Monadnock Mills
- Newport Downtown Historic District
- North Charlestown Historic District
- Washington Common Historic District
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- Backside Inn
- Blow-Me-Down Grange
- Charlestown Town Hall
- Claremont City Hall
- Claremont Warehouse No. 34
- Farwell School
- Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7
- Meriden Town Hall
- Mothers' and Daughters' Club House
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- Protectworth Tavern
- Richards Free Library
- Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill
- Sullivan County Courthouse
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- Burford House
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- Cote House
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- Durham House
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- Isaac Reed House
- Janicke House
- Knights-Morey House
- Lear House
- Louis St. Gaudens House and Studio
- Nettleton House
- Pike House
- Purnell House
- Scranton House
- Seavey House
- Stelljes House
- Welcome Acres
- William Rossiter House
- Williamson House
- Windswept Acres-Powers House
worship
- Acworth Congregational Church
- English Church
- First Baptist Church of Cornish
- First Universalist Chapel
- Langdon Meeting House
- Lempster Meetinghouse
- South Congregational Church
- Springfield Town Hall and Howard Memorial Methodist Church
- Trinity Church
- Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge
- Cold River Bridge
- Corbin Covered Bridge
- Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge‡
- Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge
- Kenyon Bridge
- Meriden Bridge
- Pier Bridge
- Prentiss Bridge
- Wright's Bridge
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