Comstock's Bridge
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Comstock's Bridge, also known as the Comstock Covered Bridge, is located in East Hampton
East Hampton, Connecticut
East Hampton is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,352 at the 2000 census. The town center village is listed as a census-designated place...

, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

. The bridge was built in 1840 to span the Salmon River
Salmon River (Connecticut)
The Salmon River is formed at the confluence of the Blackledge and Jeremy rivers about one mile west of North Westchester, Connecticut. It runs for to Salmon Cove near Moodus where it flows into the Connecticut River....

 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

on January 1, 1976.

Some people have described the Comstock Covered Bridge as haunted by the ghost of a young man.http://comstockcoveredbridge.weebly.com/

The bridge was deemed significant in 1975 by the National Register of Historic Places as being one of only three remaining historical covered bridges in Connecticut.

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