Banita Creek Bridge – Nacogdoches TX

City:
Nacogdoches, TX

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1941

Completed:
1941

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Constructed in 1941, with WPA labor, the Banita Creek Bridge crosses the waterway of the same name with three spans of reinforced concrete girder.

The 100’-long bridge has a 24’-wide roadway with cantilevered sidewalks on both sides. The hand railing is composed of open concrete balustrade divided into sections by stepped Art Deco-like posts. The approach railing at the end of bridge angles out, following the skew of the wingwalls below.

The WPA erected the bridge as part of a larger project that widened and improved the channels of Bonita and Lanana creeks. As part of the project, work-relief crews built sidewalks approaching this bridge and a separate bridge over Lanana Creek. Work began on the Banita Creek Bridge in July 1941 and concluded in October of the same year.

A nice suite of photos of the bridge can be found on Flickr.

Source notes

Murphey, John W. Texas Historic Bridge Inventory survey form, Structure # 11-174-D012-85-01, August 31, 1999. WPA Official Project File # 18254.

Site originally submitted by John Murphey on March 10, 2015.

Location Info


South Pecan St. over Bonita Creek, between East Cox St. and East Pillar St.
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Nacogdoches County

Coordinates: 31.601259, -94.656308

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One comment on “Banita Creek Bridge – Nacogdoches TX

  1. Andy Martinez

    More information about this bridge can be found at the link below, however, the map does not indicate the correct location:

    https://uglybridges.com/1534571

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  1. Andy Martinez

    More information about this bridge can be found at the link below, however, the map does not indicate the correct location:

    https://uglybridges.com/1534571

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