Hancock-Greenfield (County) Covered Bridge
Hancock/Greenfield, over the Contoocook River (Forest Road). Built 1937, 88 ft. long. The first covered bridge in the Northeast built with modern engineering (a Teco-Pratt truss). NRHP listed.
The Hancock-Greenfield Bridge, also called the County Bridge, carries Forest Road over the Contoocook River at the town line between Hancock and Greenfield. Built in 1937 to replace an 1852 Long-truss span, it is a single-span timber Teco-Pratt truss 88 feet long and over 27 feet wide. It was the first wooden covered bridge in the northeastern United States to use modern engineering techniques, and the first permanent highway span in the region to use timber connectors.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and remains open to traffic.
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