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Bog Bridge

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Built
  
1887 (1887)

Architectural style
  
Town through truss

Opened
  
1887

Added to NRHP
  
16 March 1989

Built by
  
Atwood,Prentice C.

NRHP Reference #
  
89000192

Area
  
400 m²

Bog Bridge

Location
  
Off Rt. 11 over Pleasant Brook, Andover, New Hampshire

Similar
  
Keniston Bridge, Bement Covered Bridge, Dalton Covered Bridge, Waterloo Covered Bridge, Rowell's Covered Bridge

Florida trail building a bog bridge


The Bog Bridge, also known as the Cilleyville Bridge, is a historic covered bridge in Andover, New Hampshire. The Town through truss bridge was built in 1887 by local carpenter Prentice C. Atwood. The bridge originally carried Bog Road across Pleasant Brook, but was reduced to foot traffic when the current alignment of New Hampshire Route 11 bypassed it. The bridge is 53 feet (16 m) long and 13 feet (4.0 m) wide, and is clad in vertical planking. The asphalt shingle roof, a replacement made in 1982, is the only major modification to the bridge. The bridge rests on abutments of roughly coursed granite blocks; the eastern abutment is original, without mortar, while the western abutment was damaged in the 1938 New England hurricane and rebuilt with cement mortar.

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The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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References

Bog Bridge Wikipedia