Haverhill-Bath Covered Bridge

Crossing the Ammonoosuc River between Haverhill and Bath, New Hampshire, this covered bridge was built in eighteen twenty-nine, making it one of the oldest surviving covered wooden bridges in the United States. It stretches roughly two hundred and seventy feet across two spans, resting on a central stone pier. It uses the Town lattice truss, a web of crisscrossing diagonal planks that gives the bridge its distinctive look and strength.

It carried vehicles until nineteen ninety-nine and was restored in two thousand four. Today it is open to foot traffic only. Nearly two centuries of floods, ice jams, and hard winters have passed it by, and it still stands, quiet above the water, as living evidence of an era when the covered bridge was the engineering marvel of the northern frontier.