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Shady Lake CCC Bridge #1

Athens, Polk County

Photograph of Shady Lake CCC Bridge #1
Photo: Jerry Turner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

CCC crews built this stone bridge over the South Fork of the Saline River at Shady Lake in 1936. The stone is native fieldstone over an arched steel culvert.

Kind of place
Roads and bridges
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
About 1936
Where
Athens, Polk 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.