- City:
- Charleston, WV
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Constructed by the WPA during 1936-1937, the South Side Bridge in Charleston, WV, a.k.a. the Dickinson Street Bridge, is a through truss span that crosses the Kanawha River. The structure was rehabilitated in 1990 and it is still in use today.
Source notes
FDR Library: (https://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/pdfs/ppDIRwpa.pdf), accessed July 18, 2018.
Kanawha, Bridgehunter: (https://bridgehunter.com/wv/kanawha/20A901/), accessed July 18, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 20, 2014.
Additional contributions by Ernest Everett Blevins and Brent McKee.
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