The Warner River is a 20.3-mile-long (32.7 km) river located in central New Hampshire in the United States . It is a tributary of the Contoocook River , part of the Merrimack River watershed .
6-643: The Waterloo Covered Bridge carries Newmarket Road over the Warner River near the Waterloo Falls in Warner, New Hampshire . The Town lattice truss bridge was built in 1859–60, replacing an earlier span at the same location, and is one of New Hampshire's few surviving 19th-century covered bridges. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in
12-564: The Waterloo Historic District in 2003. The Waterloo Covered Bridge is located in western Warner, spanning the Warner River in a roughly northeast–southwest orientation. The bridge is a single span with a span length of 76 feet 5 inches (23.29 m) and an overall length of 84 feet 5 inches (25.73 m). It rests on concrete foundations that were laid in 1970, during a major rehabilitation of
18-442: The structure. The roadway is 13 feet 9 inches (4.19 m) wide (enough for a single lane of traffic), with a vertical clearance of 12 feet (3.7 m). The bridge is sheathed by vertical planking and topped by a corrugated metal gable roof. The planking does not quite reach the eave, leaving an open band just below the roof line, and each side has several square openings cut in it for additional lighting. Newmarket Road
24-483: The town of Warner . The small river has a long whitewater section in western Warner, passing under the Waterloo Covered Bridge next to an old railroad station, then reaches Interstate 89 , after which the river flattens and meanders over gravel bars. A small waterfall at Davisville interrupts the flatwater, which resumes to the river's end, just north of the village of Contoocook, New Hampshire , in
30-517: The water power of the river and would have been an important feature of the village; all of these businesses failed and there are now only foundational remains. Warner River The Warner River begins at the outlet of Todd Lake in Bradford, New Hampshire , 300 meters upstream of the confluence of the West Branch . The river flows east, receiving the outlet of Lake Massasecum , and enters
36-433: Was laid out by the town of Warner in 1839, suggesting a bridge was either built or already standing at this site at that time. The present bridge was likely built in 1860, when the town paid $ 473.65 for construction of the "Waterloo Bridge". The low price suggests that the abutments were probably repaired rather than rebuilt. The site of the bridge at the Waterloo Falls was adjacent to a number of industrial enterprises using
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