- City:
- Voluntown, CT
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“The bridge is stamped as a Works Progress Administration project, built during the Great Depression in the 1930s as a way to create jobs to employ millions of out-of-work Americans. The federally-funded WPA built thousands of public works projects across the nation during the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt and was a key element in the nation’s eventual economic recovery.”
The 1938 WPA bridge was slated for demolition in 2015, but is still standing as of 2018.
Source notes
Bridge stamps
https://www.courant.com/community/new-london-edition/rnw-jc-griswold-historic-bridge-to-be-dismantled-0327-20150323-story.html
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 25, 2016.
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