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Deweyville Swing Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Deweyville Swing Bridge in 2009
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Location	SH 12 / LA 12 at Sabine River, Deweyville, Texas
Coordinates	30°18′14″N 93°44′37″W / 30.30383°N 93.74362°W / 30.30383; -93.74362
Area	less than one acre
Built	1936 (1936)-1938 (1938)
Built by	Forcum-James Co.
Architectural style	Girder swing bridge
MPS	Historic Bridges of Texas, 1866-1945 MPS
NRHP reference No.	11000346
Added——to NRHP	June 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※

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton County, Texas

References※

External links※

• Media related to Deweyville Swing Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

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