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Ledyard Bridge

Crosses	Connecticut River
Locale	Hanover, New Hampshire and Norwich, Vermont
Maintained by	New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Design	Covered Bridge (previously), ? (now)
Beginning date of construction	1998
Opening date	1859, 2000
Destruction date	1935^[1]
Coordinates	43°42′13″N, 72°17′59″W

The Ledyard Bridge crosses the Connecticut River to connect Hanover, New Hampshire to Norwich, Vermont. The Connecticut River is the largest River in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Norwich is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States, located along the Connecticut River The State of New Hampshire Department of Transportation ( NHDOT) is a government agency of the U A covered bridge is a Bridge, often single-lane with enclosed sides and a roof Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) Year 1859 ( MDCCCLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The Connecticut River is the largest River in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. Norwich is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States, located along the Connecticut River It is the third bridge at this crossing to bear the name of the adventurer John Ledyard. John Ledyard (November 1751 &ndash January 10, 1789) was an American Explorer and adventurer The first "Ledyard Free Bridge" was a covered bridge built in 1859 that was the first bridge across the Connecticut not to charge a toll. (It was the latest of several bridges at this site that went back to the late eighteenth century. ) The bridge was named after Ledyard in 1859 because its eastern abutment was near the site of a tree that Ledyard felled during 1773 in order to make the dugout canoe in which he left Dartmouth College to continue his world travels. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U

The bridge now standing was built between 1998 and 2000 by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. The State of New Hampshire Department of Transportation ( NHDOT) is a government agency of the U At each end it displays a pair of "bridge balls," the controversial Classical ornaments cast in concrete that refer to the gateway to Tuck Drive nearby on the Hanover shore. They are the product of a Concord architect brought in by NHDOT to infuse some extra aesthetic appeal into the design of the bridge. The city of Concord (ˈkɒnkərd often mispronounced as " Concorde " is the Capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States The State of New Hampshire Department of Transportation ( NHDOT) is a government agency of the U

Although the border between New Hampshire and Vermont was set at the Vermont shore early in the states' histories, the bridge's monument to that border rests near the middle of the crossing; the reasoning is that the border was fixed before the Wilder Dam pushed the Vermont shore westward during the 1950s. New Hampshire ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America.

Ledyard from Vermont	Bore shaft operations on Vermont side	Bore shaft operations	NH abutment footing
NH view of old and new Ledyard

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^ BRIDGES OF THE PAST - New Hampshire Covered Bridges

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