Misplaced Pages

Deweyville Swing Bridge

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

United States historic place
Deweyville Swing Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Deweyville Swing Bridge in 2009
Deweyville Swing Bridge is located in LouisianaDeweyville Swing BridgeDeweyville Swing BridgeShow map of LouisianaDeweyville Swing Bridge is located in TexasDeweyville Swing BridgeDeweyville Swing BridgeShow map of TexasDeweyville Swing Bridge is located in the United StatesDeweyville Swing BridgeDeweyville Swing BridgeShow map of the United States
Location SH 12 / LA 12 at Sabine River, Deweyville, Texas
Coordinates30°18′14″N 93°44′37″W / 30.30383°N 93.74362°W / 30.30383; -93.74362
Arealess than one acre
Built1936 (1936)-1938 (1938)
Built byForcum-James Co.
Architectural styleGirder swing bridge
MPSHistoric Bridges of Texas, 1866-1945 MPS
NRHP reference No.11000346
Added to NRHPJune 8, 2011

The Deweyville Swing Bridge, also known as Deweyville-Starks Swing Bridge and Sabine River Bridge, is a swing bridge which carries Texas State Highway 12 and Louisiana Highway 12 across the Sabine River at the Texas-Louisiana border. The bridge connects Deweyville, Texas to rural Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, near the community of Starks. The Texas Highway Department and Louisiana Highway Commission built the bridge as a joint effort in 1936–38; the two highway departments used federal funding from Depression-era relief programs to complete the project. The bridge was one of four federally funded bridges between Texas and Louisiana built during the Great Depression. The swing bridge design, in which the center section of the bridge can rotate, allowed a variety of boats to pass by on the swift river. The bridge is the oldest surviving swing bridge of its design in Texas and one of three such bridges in the state.

The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 2011.

See also

Portals:

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Deweyville-Starks Swing Bridge" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. Retrieved May 16, 2018. with 19 photos and a map
  3. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Deweyville Swing Bridge" (PDF). Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Retrieved May 16, 2018.

External links

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
Lists
by parish

Other lists
National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Lists
by county

National parks
Other lists
Municipalities and communities of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States
Parish seat: Lake Charles
Cities
Towns
CDPs
Other
communities
Municipalities and communities of Newton County, Texas, United States
County seat: Newton
City
Newton County map
CDPs
Other
communities
Ghost towns


Stub icon

This article about a property in Louisiana on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a property in Texas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a bridge in Louisiana is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a bridge in Texas is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: