Photo B Hig 9/21/08
The Hanover Truss Bridge Walk accross this famous bridge into the front door of the Hilltop Bar.
The Hanover Bridge is a single lane, single-span, pin-connected Pratt through truss of metal construction with a timber floor. It is a well preserved example of a bridge type once common in the region. It serves the community as a pedestrian bridge today.
The bridge carried traffic until December 1966. Due to its weight limit, anyone growing up in Hanover during that time remembers how the school bus would stop at one end, let the students off to walk across the bridge, then slowly creep across to pick them up at the opposite end before continuing on its way. Vehicular traffic which formerly passed over the bridge now passes over a concrete bridge 1500 feet to the west.
Photo B Hig 9/21/08