Centerville Township Bridge Number S-18

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Centerville Township Bridge Number S-18
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Nearest city Centerville, South Dakota
Coordinates 43°7′37″N97°2′20″W / 43.12694°N 97.03889°W / 43.12694; -97.03889 Coordinates: 43°7′37″N97°2′20″W / 43.12694°N 97.03889°W / 43.12694; -97.03889
Area less than one acre
Built 1938 (1938)
Built by Turner County Highway Department; Works Progress Administration
Architectural style Stone arch
MPS Stone Arch Culverts in Turner County, South Dakota MPS
NRHP reference # 00001216 [1]
Added to NRHP October 30, 2000

The Centerville Township Bridge Number S-18 is a historic stone arch bridge on 294th Lane in rural Turner County, South Dakota, west of Centerville. Built in 1938, it is one of a modest number of surviving stone arch bridges built in the county with funding from New Deal jobs programs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

Turner County, South Dakota County in the United States

Turner County is a county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 8,347. Its county seat is Parker. The county was established in 1871, and was named for no one in particular.

Centerville, South Dakota City in South Dakota, United States

Centerville is a city in Turner County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 882 at the 2010 census. Centerville is part of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area.

New Deal Economic programs of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression. Major federal programs included the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). They provided support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly. The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Description and history

The Centerville Township Bridge Number S-18 is located in southern Turner County, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Centerville, carrying 294th Lane across an unnamed stream east of its junction with 458th Avenue. The bridge is a two-arch stone structure, each arch measuring about 4 feet (1.2 m) in length. It is built out of local fieldstone which is mostly granite, and has wing walls that angle outward and slope downward. The stones are joined by concrete mortar. [2]

Fieldstone

Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lay at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstones were a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their farms, but at some point these stones started being used as a construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally. Collections of fieldstones which have been removed from arable land or pasture to allow for more effective agriculture are called clearance cairns.

This bridge is one of 180 stone arch bridges built in Turner County as part of a New Deal-era federal jobs program. The county administration was able to build stone bridges at a lower cost than then-conventional steel beam bridges because of the availability of experienced stone workers, and the federal subsidy to the wages they were paid. The county was responsible for supervising the work crews and providing the building materials. This bridge was built in 1938 by a county crew. [2]

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Turner County, South Dakota Wikimedia list article

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Turner County, South Dakota.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Centerville Township Bridge Number S-18". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-10-09.


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