8th Street Culvert

: 8th Street Culvert

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal

Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Completed: 1939

Marked: Yes

Site Survival: Extant

Description

The Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed this culvert in 1939. It appears to handle water running through a two-block, man-made drainage ditch, just west of the WPA athletic stadium. The culvert runs east-west and is approximately 3 ft. high by 6 ft. wide. The culvert is constructed of large, cut blocks.

: 8th Street Culvert - Okemah, OK

8th Street Culvert - Okemah, OK
Photo: hamquilter Source Public Domain 2018

8th Street Culvert - Okemah, OK

: Culvert

Culvert
Photo: hamquilter Source Public Domain 2018

Culvert

: WPA Shield

WPA Shield
Photo: hamquilter Source Public Domain 2018

WPA Shield

Source notes

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Project originally submitted by Hamquilter on June 13, 2018.

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Location Info

N 8th Street, between Erie and Frisco
Okemah, OK 74859

Coordinates: 35.4378088, -96.3098793

8th Street Culvert – Okemah OK