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 Cornish, ...
in the town of
Cornish, near its northern border with
Plainfield, New Hampshire
Plainfield is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. At the time of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 2,459. The town is home to the Helen Woodruff Smith Bird Sanctuary and Annie Duncan State Forest.
The village of ...
. Built in 1877, the
kingpost structure is one of the state's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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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 truss
A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as Beam (structure), 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 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 (engineering), span, timber Ithiel Town, Town lattice-truss, , covered bridge that crosses the Connecticut River between Cornish, New Hampshire (on the east), and Windsor, Vermont (on ...
Bridges in West Windsor, Vermont
West Windsor is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,344 at the 2020 census.
It was known for its Ascutney Mountain Resort, which closed in 2010 and was bought by its citizens in 2015.
Geography
According to t ...
* Bowers Covered Bridge
The Bowers Covered Bridge ''(aka'' Brownsville Bridge) is a historic covered bridge, carrying Bible Hill Road across Mill Brook in the Brownsville section of West Windsor, Vermont. Built in 1919, it has a laminated-arch deck covered by a post- ...
* Best's Covered Bridge
List of bridges
* List of covered bridges in New Hampshire
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