- City:
- Tobyhanna Township, PA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways
- Contractor:
- Pennsylvania Dept. of Highways
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
This structure, which carries State Route 2016 across Pond Creek, is a 12-foot stone arch bridge constructed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways with funding and labor from the WPA. From the notes: This structure is an excellent example of a WPA-sponsored project because of its well-preserved condition and undisturbed setting, where it spans Pond Creek on a rural road just outside of Lackawanna State Forest. The parapet walls of this skew stone arch bridge display careful rustic craftsmanship and an interesting mix of identifying marks. Designed by a state highway department, constructed with local labor, and paid for by the WPA, it reflects the involvement of government at all levels of the project during the Great Depression.
Source notes
Bridge was extensively documented by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) of the National Park Service. See:
https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3600/pa3670/data/pa3670data.pdf and https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3670/ . Parapet wall: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa3600/pa3670/photos/361563pv.jpg
WPA marker on bridge parapet.
Site originally submitted by Matt Hamel on September 28, 2018.
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Not “Tobyhanna Township” (Monroe County). Should be “Lehigh Township” (Lackawanna County).