Shields Bridge – Jasper AL

City:
Jasper, AL

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Completed:
1938

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration built the Shields Bridge over Blackwater Creek in Jasper, Walker County. The Shields bridge was the first one of seven other identical bridges built in Walker County.

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 69-N

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 20, 2017.

Location Info


Shields Bridge
Jasper, AL 35504
Walker County County

Coordinates: 33.9087176, -87.25695139999999

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