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Waterloo Station, Merrimack County

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Inventory Number: NH/29-07-04
State of New Hampshire Number: 13
County: Merrimack County
Township: Warner
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Waterloo Station
Crosses: Warner River
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 76'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1860
Builder: Dutton Woods
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N43 17.288
Longitude: W071 51.369
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Directions: 1.0 miles west of jct I-89 on NH103 (Exit 9), then 0.2 miles left on Newmarket Rd.

Waterloo Station Bridge, Warner, Merrimack County, NH Built 1857
Richard E. Roy Collection

Waterloo Station Bridge, Warner, Merrimack County, NH Built 1857
Henry A. Gibson Photo, April 2, 1949, NSPCB Archives

Waterloo Station Bridge, Warner, Merrimack County, NH Built 1857
Bill Caswell Photo, March 1986

Waterloo Station Bridge, Warner, Merrimack County, NH Built 1857
Bill Caswell Photo, March 29, 2007

Waterloo Station Bridge, Warner, Merrimack County, NH Built 1857
Bill Caswell Photo, September 15, 2014

Comments:
Town truss with Fanned Truss Planks. The 1857 Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Warner referred to a bridge known as "Waterloo Bridge" which was repaired at a cost of $78.00. The 1860 report notes that $473.65 was paid by the town of Warner for building Waterloo Bridge. That is a little more than half the amount paid to construct the Lower Village Bridge in the same year which may suggest that it wasn’t a completely new bridge, but an older bridge that was significantly repaired. Or, possibly a new bridge constructed using materials from the former one. The bulk of this amount was paid to Dutton Woods for the actual building of the bridge with lesser amounts being paid to William Bean, William B. Davis, Eleazor Davis, and John Colby for related tasks. In 1913, windows were cut into the bridge so travelers could look for oncoming trains at the crossing just beyond its entrance. It was rebuilt a second time in 1970, at a cost of $16,300 under the state Town Bridge Aid Program. Finally, the bridge was rehabilitated by the state in 1987 at a cost of $3,000. The Waterloo Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1976.

Sources:
Marshall, Richard G.. New Hampshire Covered Bridges : A Link With Our Past, 1994, page 25
National Register of Historic Places nomination form.
Knoblock, Glenn A.. New Hampshire Covered Bridges, 2002, page 88
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 51
Chandler, Kim Varney. Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, 2022, Pages 44-46

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