Lyme–East Thetford Bridge

United States historic place


Lyme–East Thetford Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	Connecticut River at Lyme, NH and East Thetford, VT
Coordinates	43°48′44″N 72°10′59″W / 43.812144°N 72.1831°W / 43.812144; -72.1831
Built	1937 (1937)
NRHP reference No.	100005159
Added to NRHP	March 27, 2020

The Lyme–East Thetford Bridge is a historic bridge over the Connecticut River between Lyme, New Hampshire, and East Thetford, Vermont. From the New Hampshire side it carries East Thetford Road, which becomes Vermont Route 113 as it enters Vermont. A Parker truss bridge completed in 1937, it is 471 feet (144 m) long. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

Description and history

The Lyme–East Thetford Bridge is located in a rural setting between the village of East Thetford on the Vermont side and Lyme village 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east in New Hampshire. It consists of two Parker truss spans, set on concrete abutments and a central concrete pier. The trusses are fabricated out of rolled steel I-beams, and the main deck is steel covered by asphalt.

The bridge location was the site of a ferry as early as 1780. A bridge is documented at this site in the 1840s, and a bridge built in the 1890s was destroyed by flooding in 1936. The present bridge was constructed as a replacement for the latter bridge, its abutments and piers built higher as a defense against future flooding. The bridge trusses were fabricated by the American Bridge Company, and it was largely funded by the federal government through the Works Progress Administration. The bridge is fairly typical of truss bridges built in Vermont at the time, and is the longest two-span Parker truss in the state of New Hampshire. It is one of five Parker truss bridges spanning the Connecticut River.

References

"Weekly listing". National Park Service.
^ Angers, Shelly (May 5, 2020). "1937 NH-Vt bridge named to National Register of Historic Places" (Press release). New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Retrieved June 30, 2020 – via NH.gov.
Sauchelli, Liz (April 26, 2020). "Route 113 bridge that connects Lyme and East Thetford added to historic register". Valley News. Lebanon, New Hampshire. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
^ "Thetford Town Survey of East Thetford-Lyme Bridge" (PDF). State of Vermont. Retrieved 2020-08-03.

Crossings of the Connecticut River

Upstream
Morey Memorial Bridge

Lyme–East Thetford Bridge

Downstream
Ledyard Bridge

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Grafton County, New Hampshire
National Historic Landmark	The Epic of American Civilization Murals
Historic districts	Ashland Gristmill and Dam Canaan Street Historic District Central Square Historic District Colburn Park Historic District Dorchester Common Historic District Enfield Shaker Historic District Enfield Village Historic District Haverhill Corner Historic District Hebron Village Historic District Lyme Center Historic District Lyme Common Historic District Orford Street Historic District Plymouth Historic District Shepard Hill Historic District True Farm Webster Estate
Historic properties	Abbie Greenleaf Library Ashland Junior High School Ashland Railroad Station Bath Covered Bridge Bedell Covered Bridge‡ Boulderwood Brick Store Bristol Town Hall Burleigh Brae and Webster Boathouse Burt–Cheney Farm Camp Carnes Camp Mowglis Camp Ossipee Canaan Meetinghouse Centre Village Meeting House Chapel of the Holy Cross Chocorua Island Chapel Daniel Carr House Dorchester Community Church Dow Academy Edward H. Lane House Enfield Center Town House Felsengarten First Free Will Baptist Church and Vestry Frost Place Goodall-Woods Law Office Great Hollow Road Stone Arch Bridge Hanover Town Library Haverhill–Bath Covered Bridge Hewitt House Holderness Free Library Holderness Inn Jeremiah Hutchins Tavern Lisbon Inn Littleton Town Building Lovett's by Lafayette Brook Lyme–East Thetford Bridge‡ Minot–Sleeper Library Morey Memorial Bridge‡ Moses Kent House Norman and Marion Perry House North Holderness Freewill Baptist Church–Holderness Historical Society Building Old Grafton County Courthouse Owls Head Piermont Bridge‡ The Rocks Rockywold–Deephaven Camps Sawyer–Medlicott House Sphinx Tomb Spring Hill Farm St. Mark's Episcopal Church Stone Arch Underpass Swiftwater Covered Bridge Thayer's Hotel Trinity Church US Post Office and Courthouse–Littleton Main Watch Rock Camp Whipple House Woodsville Opera Building
Footnotes	‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Grafton County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Vermont
National Historic Landmark	Justin Smith Morrill Homestead
Districts	Allis State Park Aloha Camp Aloha Hive Camp Bayley Historic District Bradford Village Historic District Brookfield Village Historic District Camp Billings Camp Wyoda Chelsea Village Historic District Depot Square Historic District Hayward and Kibby Mill Lanakila Camp Mari-Castle Asa May House Newbury Village Historic District Oxbow Historic District Randolph Center Historic District South Newbury Village Historic District Strafford Village Historic District Thetford Center Historic District Thetford Hill Historic District Thetford Hill State Park Tunbridge Village Historic District Wells River Village Historic District West Newbury Village Historic District
Buildings	Brock Hill Schoolhouse Central Vermont Railway Depot Chandler Music Hall and Bethany Parish House Elwin Chase House Congregational Church of Chelsea Ely Boston & Maine Railroad Depot Fairlee Railroad Depot Fairlee Town Hall Goshen Church Kimball Public Library Newbury Town House Marvin Newton House Peabody Library Post Mills Church South Tunbridge Methodist Episcopal Church Stratton's Inn Waits River Schoolhouse Wells River Graded School West Fairlee Center Church Harlie Whitcomb Farm Wildwood Hall
Structures	Bedell Covered Bridge ‡ Braley Covered Bridge Bridge 22 Cilley Covered Bridge Flint Covered Bridge Foundry Bridge Gifford Covered Bridge Howe Covered Bridge Kingsbury Covered Bridge Larkin Covered Bridge Lyme–East Thetford Bridge ‡ Mill Covered Bridge Morey Memorial Bridge ‡ Moxley Covered Bridge Piermont Bridge ‡ Thetford Center Covered Bridge Union Village Covered Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

Connecticut River watershed

Tributaries

Connecticut	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Salmon River Scantic River
Massachusetts	Burnshirt River Chapel Brook Chicopee River Connecticut River Cranberry River Deerfield River East Brookfield River Farmington River Fall River Five Mile River Green River Hubbard River Manhan River Mill River (Northampton) Mill River (Springfield) Millers River Mirey Brook North Branch Millers River North Branch Westfield River North River Otter River Quaboag River Scantic River Seven Mile River Tarbell Brook Ware River Westfield River
New Hampshire	Ammonoosuc River Ashuelot River Blow-me-down Brook The Branch Cold River Connecticut River East Branch Mohawk River Gale River Great Brook Halls Stream Ham Branch Indian River Indian Stream Israel River Johns River Knox River Little River Little Sugar River Mascoma River Millers River Mink Brook Mirey Brook Mohawk River Nash Stream North Branch Gale River North Branch Millers River North Branch Sugar River North Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Oliverian Brook Otter Brook Partridge Brook Perry Stream Phillips Brook Simms Stream South Branch Ashuelot River South Branch Gale River South Branch Israel River South Branch Sugar River Stocker Brook Sugar River Tarbell Brook Upper Ammonoosuc River West Branch Mohawk River West Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Wild Ammonoosuc River Zealand River
Vermont	Black River Connecticut River Deerfield River Fall River Green River Halls Stream Leach Creek Moose River Nulhegan River Ompompanoosuc River Ottauquechee River Passumpsic River Rock River Saxtons River Utley Brook Waits River Wells River West River Whetstone Brook White River Williams River Winhall River

Lakes

Connecticut	Barkhamsted Reservoir Lake Beseck Lake Hayward Lake Pocotopaug
Massachusetts	Brooks Pond Browning Pond Lake Monomonac Quabbin Reservoir Lake Wyola
New Hampshire	Ashuelot Pond Back Lake Canaan Street Lake Cedar Pond Christine Lake Comerford Reservoir Connecticut Lakes Crystal Lake Dublin Pond Eastman Pond Echo Lake Lake Francis (Murphy Dam) Goose Pond Grafton Pond Granite Lake Lakes of the Clouds Little Sunapee Lake Mascoma Lake McIndoes Reservoir Lake Monomonac Moore Reservoir Pearly Lake Silver Lake Spofford Lake Lake Sunapee Surry Mountain Lake Lake Tarleton
Vermont	Ball Mountain Lake Comerford Reservoir Harriman Reservoir Harvey's Lake McIndoes Reservoir Moore Reservoir North Hartland Lake Lake Rescue Townshend Lake

Towns

Connecticut	Chester Cromwell Deep River East Haddam East Hampton East Hartford East Windsor Enfield Essex Glastonbury Haddam Hartford Higganum Lyme Middletown Moodus Old Lyme Old Saybrook Portland Rocky Hill South Windsor Suffield Thompsonville Wethersfield Windsor Windsor Locks
Massachusetts	Agawam Chicopee Deerfield Easthampton Gill Greenfield Hadley Hatfield Holyoke Longmeadow Millers Falls Montague Northampton Northfield South Hadley Springfield Sunderland Turners Falls West Springfield Whately
New Hampshire	Bath Charlestown Chesterfield Claremont Clarksville Colebrook Columbia Cornish Dalton Groveton Hanover Haverhill Hinsdale Lancaster Lebanon Littleton Lyme Monroe Northumberland Orford Piermont Pittsburg Plainfield Stewartstown Stratford Walpole West Lebanon Westmoreland Woodsville
Quebec	East Hereford
Vermont	Ascutney Barnet Beecher Falls Bellows Falls Bloomfield Bradford Brattleboro Brunswick Canaan Concord Dummerston Fairlee Gilman Guildhall Hartford Hartland Lemington Lunenburg Maidstone Newbury Norwich Putney Rockingham Ryegate Springfield Thetford Vernon Waterford Weathersfield Wells River Westminster White River Junction Wilder Windsor

Crossings

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