Childstown Township Bridge Number S-15

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Childstown Township Bridge Number S-15
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Location 282nd St., Childstown Township, Turner County, South Dakota
Coordinates 43°17′58″N97°12′40″W / 43.29944°N 97.21111°W / 43.29944; -97.21111 Coordinates: 43°17′58″N97°12′40″W / 43.29944°N 97.21111°W / 43.29944; -97.21111
Area less than one acre
Built 1940 (1940)
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 # 00001217 [1]
Added to NRHP October 30, 2000

The Childstown Township Bridge Number S-15 is a historic bridge over an unnamed stream on 282nd Street in rural Turner County, South Dakota, west of Hurley. Built in 1940, it is one of a modest number of bridges surviving in the county that was built with New Deal funding. 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.

Hurley, South Dakota City in South Dakota, United States

Hurley is a city in Turner County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 415 at the 2010 census.

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 Childstown Township Bridge Number S-15 is located in rural western Turner County, about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Hurley. It carries 282nd Street, a rural dirt road, across an unnamed stream between 449th and 450th Avenues. It is a small single-span stone arch structure, with an arch 6 feet (1.8 m) in length. A headwall rises about 1 foot (0.30 m) above the arch on each side, and extends into angled wing walls. It is built out of local split fieldstone, mostly granite and gneiss. At the top of the arch on each is a metal plate is affixed with the legend "WPA 4422". [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 1940 by a county crew to a standardized state design. [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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