Deweyville Swing Bridge – Deweyville TX

City:
Deweyville, TX

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Bureau of Public Roads (BPR)

Completed:
1938

Designers:
Louisiana Highway Commission, Texas Highway Department

Contractor:
Forcum-James

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
Yes

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Deweyville Swing Bridge is built over the Sabine River where Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 meet. The bridge is a deck plate girder swing design. The 160 foot main span pivots on top of a central pillar.

Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act on April 8, 1935. This act gave states grant money for road and bridge construction.

The bridge opened on March 10, 1938. The bridge is opened manually by workers using a massive T-wrench inserted in a hole in the middle of the bridge and turned. Regular openings of the bridge ceased in the 1960s due to lack of river traffic. The bridge last opened in 1995. The bridge stills carries vehicular traffic and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2011.

Source notes

Plaque on bridge Historic Swing Bridges, https://www.samhouston.net/documents-coop/tcp_2014_march.pdf Historic Bridges, https://texastimetravel.com/node/28654

Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on December 19, 2015.

Location Info


Texas State Highway 12
Deweyville, TX Newton County

Location notes: On Texas State Highway 12 at the Texas-Louisiana state line

Coordinates: 30.30382, -93.74359

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One comment on “Deweyville Swing Bridge – Deweyville TX

  1. Barbara Burns

    I am trying to find out when the bridge was used to move a houseboat on the Sabine River. The owner of the boat was Jack Rowe. I thought it was late 80’s but not sure. Can you help me?
    My email is [email protected].

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One comment on “Deweyville Swing Bridge – Deweyville TX

  1. Barbara Burns

    I am trying to find out when the bridge was used to move a houseboat on the Sabine River. The owner of the boat was Jack Rowe. I thought it was late 80’s but not sure. Can you help me?
    My email is [email protected].

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