- City:
- Parkersburg, WV
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Parkersburg’s historic Fifth Street Bridge was constructed between Sept. 1935 and Apr. 1937. The bridge, which crosses the Little Kanawha River, was built with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds in addition to tolls from the nearby East Street Bridge. The PWA supplied a grant of $119,723 for the project, whose total cost was $536,303.
PWA Docket No. WV 5410.
Excerpt from the The Parkersburg News, April 14, 1937:
“Fifth Street Bridge nearing completion
The Fifth Street bridge across the Little Kanawha river should be completed by May, it was announced yesterday by H.R. Staley, government engineer inspector for the WPA on the project.
Mr. Staley said the state road commission had let the contract for the removal of 28 trees on Fifth Street to Nu-Way Nurseries, and that this work would be undertaken within the next few days.”
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 78.
https://www.mackeysclockrepair.com/more_5_old_parkersburg_wv_pictur.html
https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=wvirginia/parkersburg/
National Archives Record Group 69-N
The Parkersburg News And Sentinel, WPA tackles Parkersburg projects, May 7, 2016: (https://www.newsandsentinel.
The Parkersburg News, April 14, 1937.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 2, 2015.
Additional contributions by Brent McKee, February 14, 2018.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site
Join the Conversation