The Kenyon Bridge, also known as the Blacksmith Shop Bridge, is a historic covered bridge spanning Mill Brook near Town House Road in Cornish, New Hampshire, United States. Built in 1882, it is one of New Hampshire's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Description and history The Kenyon Bridge is located in a wooded rural setting, a short way east of Town House Road about south of its junction with Center Road. It spans Mill Brook in a roughly east-west orientation. It is long and wide, with a roadbed long and wide. The bridge rests on dry-laid stone abutments. The bridge's multiple kingpost trusses are sheltered by a sheet metal roof, with vertical plank siding covering the lower 1/3 of the trusses. Each truss consists of 28 panel sections between 29 posts.
The bridge was built in 1882 by James Frederick Tasker (1826–1903), a local builder well known for his bridges. Its historic name, Blacksmith Shop Bridge, derives from a shop nearby owned by blacksmith John Fellows. It underwent a major rehabilitation in 1963. It is now closed to vehicular traffic, but open to pedestrians. On Town House Rd, at the approximate DD coordinates of 43.463, -72.3539, a sign for Covered Bridge No. 21 marks this bridge.
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See also
Other covered bridges in Cornish Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge
Covered bridges in nearby West Windsor, Vermont Best's Covered Bridge Bowers Covered Bridge
Other bridges elsewhere List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Hampshire List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont List of covered bridges in Vermont List of crossings of the Connecticut River List of New Hampshire covered bridges National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
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External links
New Hampshire DHR page on the bridge (dated info)