Quogue Canal Bridge - Quogue NY The WPA worked to replace a bridge across the Quogue Canal that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938. Sayville’s Suffolk County News reported in Nov. 1939 that work was “progressing satisfactorily,” with the “principal concrete of the substructure … completed and steel superstructure work now in progress.” The destroyed span had crossed the canal at Beach Lane, though Medford's Mid-Island Mail noted that the WPA's new bascule span would also serve to replace a second, previously condemned, span known as the Post bridge.
The WPA bridge, which was completed in August 1940, carries vehicles along Post Lane across the...