- City:
- Cokedale, CO
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The WPA constructed this now-abandoned bridge just west of Trinidad Lake in 1936. From History Colorado:
The bridge spans Reilly Creek as part of an abandoned segment of Colo. Hwy. 12. It includes three separate spans over the creek and a large single-span overpass for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Constructed in 1936 by the Works Progress Administration, the bridge with its rock-faced masonry and beaded mortar joints is characteristic of WPA construction in southeastern Colorado.
Source notes
“Las Animas County,” History Colorado, accessed August 12, 2014.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on July 9, 2015.
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