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Posted: 29 Aug 2015

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Idaho Selway River CCC? bridge (#0165)

Idaho Selway River CCC? bridge (#0165)
Another bridge over the Selway River, of the same design and built close to the same time (1934) as the CCC-built Swifwater bridge in (#0160). I could find no information on this bridge, but other information does indicated that much of the national forest structure along the Selway River was built by the CCC, thus this may be also. (Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest)
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 tarboat
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Were some of these bridges constructed as part of employment schemes in the 1930s?
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to tarboat club
Exactly, the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) in the mid-1930's, was a key agency in Roosevelt's New Deal for putting people back to work. I couldn't find any evidence that this specific bridge was built by the CCC, but the CCC was active throughout that area at that same time and they did build bridges. AND, very few other agencies had money during the Great Depression for building bridges, so New Deal money and plans to put people back to work must have played some part in building it.
8 years ago.

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