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Pepperell Covered Bridge

Covered bridge · Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Pepperell Covered Bridge, East Pepperell Massachusetts
Pepperell Covered Bridge, East Pepperell Massachusetts · John Phelan / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0

Pepperell Covered Bridge is a covered bridge in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Massachusetts has 9 covered bridges on record at Wayfarrow.

It was built in 2010, in the postwar decades, making it the 6th oldest of the 6 in Massachusetts with a recorded construction date; it crosses Nashua River; it is about 95 feet long (2nd longest of 5 measured in Massachusetts).

Status check, 2026-11: This is the third covered bridge at the Groton Street crossing of the Nashua River. It reopened July 30, 2010, replacing the Chester Waterous covered bridge of 1962–63, which closed in 2008 and was torn down. It stands at 42.6697° N, 71.5751° W.

Key facts

Current structure built2010
CrossesNashua River
Length95 ft
Coordinates42.66971, -71.57513

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