It was built as a federal relief project during the Great Depression as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

As part of Highway 78 the bridge's average daily traffic (as of 2006) was 1,700 cars per day.

[3] It collapsed in a storm after the swinging bridge's wire cables became twisted and snapped.

[3] As a Federal Relief Project[4] funded by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933[3] construction began on February 16, 1937.

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