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Tucker Toll, Windham County

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Inventory Number: VT/45-13-54x / NH-03-22x
County: Windham County / Cheshire County
Township: Rockingham - Walpole
Town/Village: Bellows Falls
Bridge Name: Tucker Toll
Crosses: Connecticut River
Truss type: Town
Spans: 2
Length: 262'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1840
Builder: Sanford Granger, Isaac Damon, and Lyman Kingsley
When Lost: 1930
Cause: Replaced
Latitude: N43 08.12
Longitude: W072 26.41
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: Bridge Street at Bellows Falls.

Tucker Toll Bridge, Bellows Falls, VT to North Walpole, NH Built 1840 Replaced 1930
Brian J. McKee Collection

Tucker Toll Bridge, Bellows Falls, VT to North Walpole, NH Built 1840 Replaced 1930
Bill Caswell Collection

Tucker Toll Bridge, Bellows Falls, VT to North Walpole, NH Built 1840 Replaced 1930
Richard E. Roy Collection

Tucker Toll Bridge, Bellows Falls, VT to North Walpole, NH Built 1840 Replaced 1930
New Hampshire Department of Transportation Files

Comments:
The bridge had a covered walkway on the south side. The toll was removed in 1904. It was named after Nathaniel Tucker who funded the bridge.

Sources:
Collins, Anne L, Virginia Lisai, and Louise Luring; Around Bellows Falls, Arcadia Publishing, 2002, page 26
Allen, Richard S. & Morse Victor. Windham County's Famous Covered Bridges, 1960, page 30
Knoblock, Glenn A.. New Hampshire Covered Bridges, 2002, pages 14, 54
Connecticut River Valley Covered Bridge Society. Bulletin, Volume X, No. 1 (Summer 1963), page 3

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