Fosnaugh Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, Spanning Scippo Creek at Township Route 128, Stoutsville vicinity, Fairfield County, OH

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4 drawings
6 b&w photos
9 data pages
1 photo caption pages

TITLE:
Fosnaugh Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, Spanning Scippo Creek at Township Route 128, Stoutsville vicinity, Fairfield County, OH

CALL NUMBER:
HAER OHIO,23-STOVI.V,1-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 4 (24 x 36 in.)
Photo(s): 6 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 8 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

RELATED NAME(S):
Hocking Valley Bridge Works
Borneman, Augustus

NOTE:
Survey number HAER OH-43

Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-5).

Building/structure dates: 1891 initial construction

Significance: The Fosnaugh Truss leg Bedstead Bridge was built by the Hocking Valley Bridge Works (HVBW) of Lancaster, Ohio in 1891. HVBW was a small firm founded by Augustus Borneman in 1881. This bridge is almost identical to Borneman's 1879 patent for an improved truss bridge. After the Ashtabula bridge disaster in 1876, where a large, cast-and-wrought iron Howe Truss failed under the weight of a locomotive, questions were raised regarding the durability of composite cast and wrought iron bridges. Thus, patents received by Ohioans tended to be for small span bridges for country highways, and often for construction in wood, or wood and metal, in addition to improvements to all metal constructed bridges. The Fosnaugh bridge then, is typical of the kind of design produced and built during this period in that it sought to improve on metal bridge designs. Specifically, the Fosnaugh bridge's improved design concentrated on protection of the major connecting points. The bridge is listed as a "selected bridge" in the Ohio Department of Transportation's Ohio Historic Bridge Inventory Evaluation and Preservation Plan.

SUBJECTS:
OHIO--Fairfield County--Stoutsville vicinity

OTHER TITLE:
Scippo Bridge

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.oh1474

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW, LOOKING NORTHEAST, SHOWING SIDE ELEVATION OF BRIDGE AND SETTING
2. VIEW OF WESTERN END OF BRIDGE, SHOWING STONE ENDPOSTS
3. DETAIL OF END CONDITION, SHOWING TRUSS BEARING ON STONE ENDPOSTS AND ENDPOSTS BEARING ON ABUTMENTS
4. DETAIL OF TRUSS BEARING ON STONE ENDPOST
5. DETAIL OF SINGLE PANEL POINT, SHOWING UPPER AND LOWER CHORD CONNECTIONS
6. VIEW UNDERNEATH BRIDGE, SHOWING DECK BEAMS, STRINGERS AND DIAGONAL BRACING WITH ABUTMENT IN BACKGROUND

CONTROL #:
OH1474

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