Lake Powell Bridge - Laguna Beach FL

City:: Laguna Beach, FL
Site Type:: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
New Deal Agencies:: Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Started:: 1934
Completed:: 1935

Description

Florida’s Lake Powell Bridge—also known as the Philips Inlet Bridge—was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $148,087 loan for the project, whose total cost was $141,409. It was constructed a toll bridge. Construction occurred between 1934 and 1935. The project helped to spur development between Panama City and Pensacola.

PWA Docket No. FL 793

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 90.

State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory,
https://floridamemory.com/items/show/138138

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 19, 2015.