- City:
- Cottonwood, AZ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) built the curving bridge over the Creosote Wash on North Main Street in Cottonwood AZ in the winter of 1933-34.
The bridge is built of reinforced concrete with river stone cladding. The upstream side features a handsome arch, while the downstream side reveals the underlying concrete substructure.
Creosote Wash is an episodic creek that is dry much of the year. It used to be called Blowout Wash (and is still marked as such on some online maps).
Source notes
CWA project F-7 sign in 1934 photograph of the bridge under construction -- found on the wall of Bocce Pizzeria on N. Main Street, Cottonwood AZ and in the Arcadia book on Cottonwood (below)
Helen Killebrew and Helga Freund with the Verde Historical Society, Cottonwood. Charleston SC: Arcadia Books, 2011.
Site originally submitted by Richard Walker on April 27, 2022.
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