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Bridge removed in 2014 [9] River source at confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire , at 43°26′12″N 71°38′54″W / 43.43667°N 71.64833°W / 43.43667; -71.64833 ( source/confluence
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling [1]) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river [2] in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, [3] flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
The town is also known for the Tyngsborough Bridge, a green painted, single-arched, steel bridge over the Merrimack River. Constructed in 1931 as a replacement for an earlier wooden planked structure, [3] this bridge is a major river crossing for residents of Massachusetts and New Hampshire alike with 22,300 daily crossings as of 2007. [4]
Merrimac Bridge (Rocks Bridge) Extant Swing span: 1883 1990 Bridge Street Merrimack River: Haverhill and Newbury: Essex: MA-104: Duck Bridge Extant Warren truss: 1888 1990 Union Street Merrimack River: Lawrence: Essex
The Chain Bridge in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is a "look-alike" replica built in 1910 to replace the "first suspension bridge" constructed in the United States in 1810. Since the current structure is one of a series of bridges at this location since 1793, it is "the oldest continually occupied, long span, bridge crossing" in the US.
List of crossings of the Merrimack River; N. North Bank Bridge This page was last edited on 14 November 2015, at 00:48 (UTC). ...
Haverhill is the site of six road crossings and a rail crossing of the Merrimack; two by I-495 (the first leading into Methuen), the Comeau Bridge (Railroad Avenue, which leads to the Bradford MBTA station), the Haverhill/Reading Line Railroad Bridge, the Basiliere Bridge (Rte. 125/Bridge St.), the Bates Bridge (Rtes. 97/113 to Groveland), and ...
A $24 Million project to rehabilitate the Tyngsborough Bridge began in 2005. Repairs took around seven years, and the original bridge was re-opened on the morning of September 11, 2012. [2] In late 2011, through traffic just east of the bridge was rerouted to curve away from the Merrimack River before rejoining the original right of way.