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Newport Historical Society, Newport, NH
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Project to Restore Pier Bridge and Wright’s Bridge
 
The Newport Historical Society, founded in 1928, has partnered with the town of Newport, N.H. and the New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources to protect and rehabilitate the historic bridges on the Sugar River Rail Trail (part of the Rails to Trails network). Included in the Historic American Engineering Record at the Library of Congress, these bridges “represent the evolution of engineering and transportation in the United States,” says James Garvin, State Architectural Historian. Constructed at the turn of the century, they are two of the world’s eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the “double Town lattice truss” style, and listed on the National Historic Register. The Tourism Cares grant assisted with roof repairs to the Pier Bridge and Wright’s Bridge.
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