Bath-Haverhill Covered Bridge oldest
— — the bridge that has watched the river change its mind.
Not only on a wall.
“A red wooden bridge with a shingled roof, two spans of town-lattice timber crossing the Ammonoosuc River where Bath meets Haverhill. Believed to be the oldest covered bridge still standing in New Hampshire, built around 1829 on stone piers that have been rebuilt more than once. The current paint is barn red. In late October the sugar maples on the Haverhill side go the same colour and the bridge nearly disappears into them. from the studio
Bath-Haverhill Covered Bridge oldest, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Bath-Haverhill Covered Bridge crosses the Ammonoosuc River between the towns of Bath and Haverhill in Grafton County, in northern New Hampshire. It is about 256 feet long across two spans, framed in town-lattice trusses, and rests on three stone piers. Most sources date the present structure to 1829, which makes it the oldest covered bridge still standing in New Hampshire and one of the oldest in the United States. It carries a single lane of local traffic and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The bridge sits on three rough granite piers cut from local stone and pinned with iron. The town-lattice truss, patented by Ithiel Town in 1820, uses crossed planks pinned with wooden treenails rather than heavy timber framing, which is why the wall reads as a diagonal weave from inside. The cladding is sawn pine, painted the deep oxide red common to nineteenth-century New England covered bridges. The river below runs from the Ammonoosuc's headwaters near Mount Washington down to the Connecticut River at Woodsville.
The bridge is open year-round to vehicles under a posted weight limit. Photographers come for two windows: late September through mid-October, when the sugar maples on the Haverhill bank turn red and orange against the painted siding, and again after the first heavy snow, when the shingled roof and the white river ice flatten the scene into two colours. Spring run-off can run high enough to lap the lower chords. The neighbouring villages of Bath and Woodsville sit within a few miles.