West Cornwall Covered Bridge
- West Cornwall Covered Bridge
The West Cornwall Covered Bridge is a wooden lattice truss bridge built over the Housatonic River in the town of Cornwall, Connecticut. It is estimated to have been built around 1864. The covered bridge is ft to m|172|abbr=yes long, ft to m|15|abbr=yes wide and supports one lane of vehicle traffic for the Sharon-Goshen Turnpike (Connecticut Route 128). [Cornwall Historical Society. [http://www.cornwallhistoricalsociety.org/Covered%20Bridge.html “The Covered Bridge in West Cornwall, Connecticut.”] Accessed 2008-07-29.] The bridge is built of red spruce timbers secured with treenails (wooden pegs). In 1973 the roadway was reinforced with the addition of a concealed steel deck. [Public Archeology Survey Team, Inc., Storrs, CT. [http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/covered-cornwall.html “West Cornwall Bridge.”] Accessed 2008-07-29.]
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [United States National Park Service. Washington, DC. [http://www.nr.nps.gov/nrdown1.htm “National Register Information System.”] ]
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