Durgin Bridge
Inscription
Built by Jacob Berry of North Conway, this bridge is the fourth to span the Swift River here since 1820. Freshets in 1844, 1865, and 1869 destroyed the first three. The bridge is named for James Holman Durgin (1815–73) who ran a grist mill near it; drove a stage from Sandwich to Farmington; and was a link in the underground slave railroad, Sandwich to Conway.
Location
Sources
More markers in Carroll
Captain Lovewell's War
Ossipee, NH
Was fought between 1722 and 1725 against several tribes of eastern Indians.
The Chocorua Legend
Tamworth, NH
In several versions the legend's sequence relates the mysterious death of Chocorua's son while in the care of a settler named Campbell.
Wentworth Estate
Wolfeboro, NH
This marker stands on the northwesterly part of a 4,000-acre tract which comprised the elegant country estate of John Wentworth, last...
First Normal School in New Hampshire
Effingham, NH
On the rise of the ground just west of here, on the 2nd floor of the old Effingham Union Academy Building (1819), was the First Normal...
First Summer Playhouse
Tamworth, NH
Nearby stands 'The Barnstormers' summer playhouse, the oldest in New Hampshire and one of the first in the nation.