Manning Crevice Bridge
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
Quality of Information: Moderate
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
This suspension bridge was built by CCC enrollees from the French Creek CCC camp (1896) in 1935. It was named to honor a CCC enrollee who was killed near the bridge. The bridge is 248’ in length and built of creosoted timber with concrete abutments.
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French Creek Camp
Source notes
Bridgemeister.com "The CCCs on the Nez Perce National Forest," National Park Service Alison T. Otis, William D. Honey, Thomas C. Hogg, and Kimberly K. Lakin,The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-1942 (1986), United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, FS -395
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on February 23, 2013.
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