- City:
- Rulo, MO, NE
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Sometimes mis-attributed to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the former Rulo Bridge, which carried U.S. 159 from the village of Rulo in Richardson County, Nebraska, to Holt County, Missouri, over the Missouri River, was enabled by a grant provided by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA). NRHP: “In September 1938, the Public Works Administration agreed to fund 45 percent of the bridge’s construction, the total grant not to exceed $326,250. To cover the balance, the county released a bond issue which was to be repaid through bridge revenue.”
Wikipedia: “In March 2009, Nebraska Department of Roads approved a plan for a new bridge, which would be 650 feet (200 m) south of the current bridge. The current Rulo Bridge would then be dismantled.
The new replacement bridge opened in 2013, and the old bridge was imploded on January 19, 2014.”
Source notes
National Register of Historic Places nomination form:
https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/7e84f09e-00dc-40c3-8f57-097664eeafca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulo_Bridge (accessed Jul. 2016)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 29, 2016.
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