- City:
- Council Bluffs, Omaha, IA, NE
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1936
- Contractor:
- Kansas City Bridge Company
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge (originally the South Omaha Bridge) was constructed during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. Demolished in 2010, construction occurred between 1934 and 1936. The PWA supplied a $1,325,000 loan and $405,293 grant for the project, whose total cost was $1,735,910.
PWA Docket No. NE 22.
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Omaha_Veterans_Memorial_Bridge National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 147.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 3, 2015.
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Morgan
I live near Council Bluffs and just heard about the Living New Deal on NPR’s marketplace segment yesterday. Thank you for cataloging these sites which are such an important part of American culture and history!