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Drewsville or Prentiss, Sullivan County

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Inventory Number: NH/29-10-07
State of New Hampshire Number: 19
County: Sullivan County
Township: Langdon
Town/Village: Drewsville
Bridge Name: Drewsville or Prentiss
Crosses: Great Brook
Truss type: Town
Spans: 1
Length: 35'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1869
Builder: Albert S. Granger
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N43 09.188
Longitude: W072 23.601
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 3.1 miles southeast of jct NH12 on NH12A then 0.7 miles on Lower Cemetery Rd. (becomes Cheshire Tpke.) to the bridge on the left side on a bypassed section of road.

Drewsville or Prentiss Bridge, Langdon, NH (Built 1874)
Richard E. Roy Collection

Drewsville or Prentiss Bridge, Langdon, Sullivan County, NH Built 1874
Bill Caswell Photo (1984)

Drewsville or Prentiss Bridge, Langdon, Sullivan County, NH Built 1869
Bill Caswell Photo, March 10, 2007

Comments:
The Prentiss Bridge is the smallest covered bridge in New Hampshire. It was built by Albert S. Granger and is the third bridge on this site. The date of the first structure is unknown but the second was built in December 1791 on land cleared and settled by John Prentiss in 1785. In 1805, the Cheshire Turnpike Company took over the bridge as part of the turnpike from Canada to Boston. On March 10, 1874, the town voted to raise $1,000 to replace the old structure with a thirty foot Granger covered bridge. It served the community until it was bypassed in 1954 and now serves foot traffic only. It is also known as the Drewsville Bridge. The Langdon Bicentennial Committee will provide the materials for a local volunteer effort to repair both the Prentiss Bridge and the McDermott Bridge. The Prentiss Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sources:
Marshall, Richard G.. New Hampshire Covered Bridges : A Link With Our Past, 1994, page 37
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XV, No. 2, July 1957, page 3
Knoblock, Glenn A.. New Hampshire Covered Bridges, 2002, page 39
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 53
Chandler, Kim Varney. Covered Bridges of New Hampshire, 2022, Pages 69-71

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