Brinda Holloway's Bridges

a map that collects together all the covered bridges in New England, state by state

Some notes I made as I read Brenda Holloway's bridge hunting blog.

• Comstock Covered Bridge; revisited
• falling arch
• double steel arch
• Bear Mountain (suspension)\
• Bulls covered bridge and one of two dams near Kent, CT
• West Cornwall Covered Bridge (double span)
• Cornwell Bridge, open spandrel concrete
• Washington Bridge, open spandrel concrete and trunnion bascule
• Tomilinson Lift Bridge, covered towers

• East Haddam Swing Bridge

• Great River Bridges, truss restoration
• Bulkeley Bridge, longest shaped stone bridge in the world and carries an Interstate highway

• Ware-Hardwick Covered Bridge, MA

• Whitestone Bridge, Bronx-Queens, NY

• Talcottville Iron Bridge, Talcottville, CT., contains a link to the history of this mill town; revisited

• Perl Harbor Memorial (Q) Bridge replacement, "extra-dosed" cable design
• most of the bridges over Connecticut River in Connecticut
• 3 bridges of Portsmouth including Sarah Mildred
• George Washington Bridge

• The Last Voyage of the Enterprise (and the Gil Hodges/Marine Parkway Bridge, Brooklyn-Rockaway, NY), interesting lift tower covers

• haunted covered bridge and Cat excavator, a 1974 bridge is in bad shape (hurricane Irene)

• Burkeville Covered Bridge, Conway, MA, traffic is blocked with a millstone

• has link to downloadable Historic Places spreadsheet
• Berlin Iron plus 6 more historic bridges in Hartford 

• Gold Star Memorial Bridge, Thames River, CT plus Amtrak's lift bridge plus Old Town Mill with it vertical water wheel    I was recently informed from a state trooper that the bridge is unsafe. It has become a very unfortunate secret.

• Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, RI, concrete box girder

• Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, Jamestown-Newport, RI, suspension with 400' towers, New England's longest            This was a pioneering bridge: the first use of prefabricated parallel wire strand cables in a suspension bridge, where the strands are bound together at ground level and then unreeled onto the bridge. Prior to that, aerial spinning of wires was the norm. Each main cable is made up of 76 prefabricated strands. The bridge was also controversial because the original paint system failed within a year or two of opening; the contractor was found to be at fault.

• Providence River Bridge, network arch bridge, Fox Point hurricane barrier; at night

• FDR Mid-Hudson Bridge, Poughkeepsie-Highland, NY, suspension

• Now starring in The Dark Knight Rises: The Queensboro Bridge

• Contoocook Railroad Bridge, 1889  "oldest surviving covered railroad bridge in the world"  double Town lattice

• Thompson Covered Bridge, West Swanzey, NH; prettiest

• Braga Bridge, Fall River-Somerset, MA; big cantilevered truss

• Sagamore Bridge, Bourne Bridge and Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Cape Cod, MA; steel arch, ornate lift, steel arch

• Mount Hope Bridge, Bristol-Portsmouth, Rhode Island, suspension