(From The Telegraph files) This photo depicts one of New Hampshire's iconic covered bridges, which, like most of them, is now but a memory etched in longtime residents' minds and on the pages of town history books. Built in 1879, this vintage gem carried horses, buggies, pedestrians and then automobiles over the Souhegan River as they traveled along Merrimack's Turkey Hill Road. According to a note on the back, the photo was taken in July 1967, which fits, given that the Pontiac -- possibly a GTO -- emerging from the bridge is a 1966-67 model. Measuring 124 feet long by 16 feet wide, with a clearance of 13 feet, the historic bridge's days, unbeknownst to townfolk, were numbered when this photo was taken -- it was burned down by arsonists on April 7, 1968.

This photo depicts one of New Hampshire’s iconic covered bridges, which, like most of them, is now but a memory etched in longtime residents’ minds and on the pages of town history books. Built in 1879, this vintage gem carried horses, buggies, pedestrians and then automobiles over the Souhegan River as they traveled along Merrimack’s Turkey Hill Road. According to a note on the back, the photo was taken in July 1967, which fits, given that the Pontiac – possibly a GTO – emerging from the bridge is a 1966-67 model. Measuring 124 feet long by 16 feet wide, with a clearance of 13 feet, the historic bridge’s days, unbeknownst to townfolk, were numbered when this photo was taken – it was burned down by arsonists on April 7, 1968.