- City:
- East Haddam, CT
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
[National Bridge Inventory] Bridge No. 1603 in Connecticut is one of three bridges constructed in 1937 to carry Hopyard Road [State Road 434] over varying brooks within Devil’s Hopyard State Park in East Haddam. They were built as part of a Federal Works Progress Administration project. The bridges were each added to the National Register of Historic Places, and Bridge No. 1603 bears NRHP reference number 93000641.Bridge No. 1603 is a stone arch bridge located on SSR 434: 6.70 miles east of the route’s western terminus at Route 82. It crosses an unnamed creek. The structure was rehabilitated in 1988.
Source notes
https://nationalbridges.com/ https://bridgehunter.com/ct/middlesex/1603/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Bridges_of_Devil%27s_Hopyard_State_ParkSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 9, 2014.
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