The Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge is a historic wooden
covered bridge
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
carrying Lang Road over
Blow-me-down Brook
Blow-me-down Brook is a long stream located in western New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Blow-me-down Brook begins near the northeast border of the town of Cornis ...
in the town of
Cornish, near its northern border with
Plainfield, New Hampshire. Built in 1877, the
kingpost
A king post (or king-post or kingpost) is a central vertical post used in architectural or bridge designs, working in tension to support a beam below from a truss apex above (whereas a crown post, though visually similar, supports items above f ...
structure is one of the state's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
in 1978.
Description
The Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge is located in a rural section of Cornish, spanning Blow-me-down Brook on Lang Road a short way west of its junction with Platt Road. The bridge structure incorporates a single-span multiple
kingpost
A king post (or king-post or kingpost) is a central vertical post used in architectural or bridge designs, working in tension to support a beam below from a truss apex above (whereas a crown post, though visually similar, supports items above f ...
truss
A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure.
In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembla ...
that spans and has a roadway wide. It rests on natural granite ledges which have been levelled with dry-laid stone. It is covered by a metal roof, with vertical board siding on the sides and around the portals.
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History
The bridge was built in 1877 by James Frederick Tasker (1826–1903) for $528 ().
See also
Other bridges in Cornish
* Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge
* Blacksmith Shop or Kenyon Bridge, foot traffic only
* Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge
The Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge is a -year-old, two-span, timber Town lattice-truss, , covered bridge that crosses the Connecticut River between Cornish, New Hampshire (on the east), and Windsor, Vermont (on the west). Until 2008, when the Sm ...
Bridges in West Windsor, Vermont
* Bowers Covered Bridge
* Best's Covered Bridge
List of bridges
* List of covered bridges in New Hampshire
This is a list of New Hampshire covered bridges, old, new, and restored. There are 58 historic wooden covered bridges currently standing and assigned official numbers by the U.S. state of New Hampshire. There are additional covered bridges extant ...
National Register listings of area bridges
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References
External links
Blow-Me-Down Bridge
New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources (dated info)
{{NRHP in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Bridges completed in 1877
Wooden bridges in New Hampshire
Tourist attractions in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Bridges in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Cornish, New Hampshire
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
King post truss bridges in the United States
1877 establishments in New Hampshire