- City:
- Riggins, ID
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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.
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 -395Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on February 23, 2013.
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