The Deweyville Swing Bridge, also known as Deweyville-Starks Swing Bridge and Sabine River Bridge, is a

swing bridge A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravit ...

which carries

Texas State Highway 12 State Highway 12 (SH 12) is a west–east state highway in the U.S. state of Texas that runs from Interstate 10 (I-10) in Vidor to the Louisiana state line at Deweyville. The route was designated on August 27, 1959, as a renumberin ...

and Louisiana Highway 12 across the Sabine River at the

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

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border. The bridge connects

Deweyville, Texas Deweyville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Newton County, on the central eastern border of Texas, United States. The population was 571 at the 2020 census, down from 1,023 at the 2010 census. Historical development This settlement was e ...

to rural

Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Calcasieu Parish (; ) is a parish located on the southwestern border of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 216,785. The parish seat and largest city is Lake Charles. Calcasieu Parish is part of the Lake C ...

, 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. wit
19 photos and a map
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National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

on June 8, 2011.

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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana Transportation in Newton County, Texas Transportation buildings and structures in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Bridges completed in 1938 Swing bridges in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana National Register of Historic Places in Newton County, Texas Drawbridges on the National Register of Historic Places 1938 establishments in Louisiana 1938 establishments in Texas Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana) {{Texas-bridge-struct-stub

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