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Rexleigh Bridge

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Crosses
  
Battenkill

Area
  
4,000 m²

Added to NRHP
  
8 March 1978

Opened
  
1874

Body of water
  
Batten Kill

Rexleigh Bridge

Address
  
Rexleigh Rd, Salem, NY 12865, USA

Similar
  
Eagleville Bridge, Batten Kill, Shushan Bridge, Buskirk Bridge, Hyde Hall Bridge

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Rexleigh Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over the Batten Kill in Washington County, New York. It is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State.

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Town and Howe truss designs were patented by Ithiel Town in 1820 and William Howe (architect) in 1840, respectively. The Rexleigh Bridge employs "the patented Howe truss, with paired diagonal timbers, single timber counters, and multiple vertical iron rods defining each truss panel. The diagonals and verticals are connected to the upper and lower chords by means of cast-iron bearing blocks." Those bearing blocks are "embossed with the name of their manufacturer, 'R. Comins, Troy, N.Y.,'" and, although the timber used is local, the bridge "appears to be a rare surviving example of this type of prefabricated nineteenth-century bridge construction."

It was individually inventoried by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1977.

It is one of four Washington County covered bridges submitted for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in one multiple property submission. The others are the Buskirk Bridge, the Eagleville Bridge, and Shushan Bridge. All four were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 8, 1972.

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References

Rexleigh Bridge Wikipedia


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