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The Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge
History
1796 bridge
The Cornish Bridge Company was chartered November 10, 1797.[1] On the morning of February 16 1824, the eastern part of the Cornish Bridge – on the Cornish side, opposite of Windsor – was swept away in the
Connecticut River.[2]
Controversy over tolls
In 1917, a Windsor resident, Frederick A. Fitts, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, at the November term of Sullivan County Court (located in
Claremont) against the Cornish Toll Bridge Company, arguing that the tolls were illegal. Part of the public sentiment against tolls was influenced by a bridge at Ascutneyville, 10 miles north, newly re-built in 1908, made of steel and toll-free. The Ascutneyville bridge crosses the Connecticut River, connecting
Claremont with
Ascutney (an unincorporated part of
Weathersfield). Before 1908, the Claremont Bridge Company had built and maintained a toll-bridge at Ascutneyville, Vermont, from 1839 until March 1904, when it was destroyed by
freshet.[3]
Selected personnel
Founding directors in 1796
Nathaniel Leonard
Jonathan H. Hubbard
Perez Jones (1765–1837)
Caleb Stone (1746–1820)
Ithamer Chase (1762–1817), father of the
Salmon Portland Chase, the sixth Chief Justice of the United States
Founding executives
* William Leverett (1760–1817), treasurer
Directors in 1803
William Leverett
Stephan Jacob
Ithamer Chase
Directors in 1804
Isaac Green
William Leverett
John Leverett (1758–1829), brother of William Leverett, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1776 from
Harvard; William and John's great-great-great grandfather,
John Leverett, the 19th and last governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony