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Little Buffalo River Bridge

Newton County

Photograph of Little Buffalo River Bridge
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Newton County used a 1938 WPA road project to improve county roads, including what was then Buffalo Road, and this concrete T-beam bridge carries it over the Little Buffalo River near Parthenon. It was finished in 1939.

Kind of place
Roads and bridges
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
1938 to 1939
Where
Newton County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.