South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-132-040

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South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-132-040
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Nearest city Parker, South Dakota
Coordinates 43°26′42″N97°8′9″W / 43.44500°N 97.13583°W / 43.44500; -97.13583 Coordinates: 43°26′42″N97°8′9″W / 43.44500°N 97.13583°W / 43.44500; -97.13583
Area less than one acre
Built 1939 (1939)
Built by Turner County Highway Dept.; Work Progress Administration
Architectural style Stone arch
MPS Historic Bridges in South Dakota MPS
NRHP reference # 99001215 [1]
Added to NRHP September 29, 1999

South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-132-040 is a historic bridge in rural Turner County, South Dakota. Built in 1939, it is a well-preserved period stone-arch bridge, built with funding from a New Deal jobs program. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]

Turner County, South Dakota county in South Dakota, United States of America

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 Dakota Territory official John W. Turner.

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. The programs focused on what historians refer to as the "3 Rs": relief for the unemployed and poor, recovery of the economy back to normal levels and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority with its base in liberal ideas, the South, traditional Democrats, big city machines and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities. The Republicans were split, with conservatives opposing the entire New Deal as hostile to business and economic growth and liberals in support. The realignment crystallized into the New Deal coalition that dominated presidential elections into the 1960s while the opposing conservative coalition largely controlled Congress in domestic affairs from 1937 to 1964.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Description and history

Bridge No. 63-016-150 is located in rural northern Turner County, carrying 272nd Street over an unnamed stream, between 453rd Avenue and South Dakota Highway 19. It is a two-arch stone structure, with a total length of about 24 feet (7.3 m). Its two arches are segmental, with a span of 10 feet (3.0 m), and rise about 12 inches (0.30 m) above the grade. The bridge has stone wing walls, which rise to low parapets that serve as curbing for the roadway. The bridge is fashioned out of locally quarried fieldstone, most of which is roughly cut and randomly laid. The finished surfaces have been trimmed and squared. [2]

South Dakota Highway 19 highway in South Dakota

South Dakota Highway 19 (SD 19) is a 86.974-mile-long (139.971 km) state highway in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota. It connects the Nebraska state line, south of Vermillion, with the southeastern part of the Madison area, via Viborg, Hurley, Parker, and Humboldt. SD 19 formerly entered Centerville, but was shifted to the south. Its former path was redesignated as SD 19A. Its former southern terminus was at Vermillion, but was extended when a new bridge from Nebraska opened.

This bridge is one of 180 stone arch bridges built in Turner County as part of a New Deal-era federal jobs program, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). 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 1935 by a county crew to a standardized state design. It is one of only two bridges in the county built with FERA funding; others were built with later Works Progress Administration funds. [2]

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had created in 1933. FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Works Progress Administration largest and most ambitious United States federal government New Deal agency

The Works Progress Administration was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much smaller project, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.

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 South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 63-132-040". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
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