- City:
- Plover, WI
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agency:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Contractor:
- Darwin Denver Wallace
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor participated in construction of this bridge, which carrier Biron Drive over a creek at the coordinates provided.
On May 5, 1938, the Plover Town Board approved $1150.62 for the construction of a new bridge over a creek outflow into the Wisconsin River at the far western end of the township. (The bridge is closer to downtown Wisconsin Rapids than to downtown Plover.) Based on an inscription into the concrete, the concrete for the bridge was poured by Darwin Denver Wallace, a local tradesman who had operated a nearby gravel pit and built cement porches for neighbors in the neighboring town of McDill.
Finished in October 1938, the I-beam bridge consists of steel beams supported by winged concrete walls on either side of the bridge. The bridge came in $575.31 over budget, which the Town of Plover appropriated from its coffers in February 1939. As of May 2024, the bridge surface has been repaved but remains in good condition.
Source notes
Stevens Point Journal. “Pleasant Gathering”. June 21, 1922. Page 7. Accessed at https://www.newspapers.com/image/250423140/
Stevens Point Journal. “Resolution No. 10”. February 27, 1939. Page 2. Accessed at https://www.newspapers.com/image/250452481/
Inscription on-site
Goc, Michael J. Land & Lumber: A History of Portage County. pp. 114-115. Friendship, Wis.: New Past Press, 1999.
Site originally submitted by Cory Haala on April 22, 2025.
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