- City:
- Gill, Turners Falls, MA
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) allocated funds in 1936 to the tune of $372,722 (not adjusted for inflation) for the reconstruction of a span across the Connecticut River between the Town of Montague [Turner Falls] and Gill, Mass. The Turners Falls-Gill Bridge, which was constructed in 1937-8, has since been rehabilitated and is sometimes referred to as the Gill-Montague Bridge.
A plaque on the bridge credits the United States Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and features a project number; it is sometimes overlooked as the information is written in comparatively small lettering at the top of the plaque.
Source notes
Works Progress Bulletin, Massachusetts: Aug. 28, 1936 (pg. 3)
https://archive.org/details/worksprogressbul3637unit
Plaque on bridge
"Towns ask state to remove erroneous plaque on Turners Falls-Gill Bridge," Greenfield Reporter, May 20, 2020: https://www.recorder.com/Towns-ask-state-to-remove-plaque-on-Turners-Falls-Gill-Bridge-34026885 (accessed April 28, 2022)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 28, 2022.
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