- City:
- China Township, MI
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Contractor:
- Couse and Saunders
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The bridge bringing King Road across Belle River in China Township, Michigan was funded with the support of New Deal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The current status of the bridge is unknown, but Living New Deal believes it has been replaced. More information is needed.
Michigan’s Department of Transportation writes regarding the neighboring Indian Trail Road Bridge:
“At a meeting on 24 July 1935, the county road commission resolved to apply for a grant from the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (PWA) to build a bridge over the Belle River at this location, once known as Radike Mills. The process took more than a year, but on 19 September 1936, the board received word that the grant had been approved. The grant also included the construction of a bridge for King Road, about 2 miles east of Indian Trail Road.
…
Road and bridge improvements were important products of the massive federal relief programs during the 1930s. In addition to the three St. Clair County bridges funded by the PWA, the county had used another program, the Works Projects Administration (WPA), to build four other bridges, grade 148 miles of secondary roads, and construct 448 culverts by the end of 1936.”
PWA Project No. MI 1076-R.
Source notes
https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,4616,7-151-9620_11154_11188-28935--,00.html https://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/indian/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 13, 2014.
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