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Fosnaugh Truss Leg Bedstead Bridge, Spanning Scippo Creek at Township Route 128, Stoutsville, Fairfield County, OH
LocationSpanning Scippo Creek at Township Route 128,
Stoutsville vicinity, OH
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
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.
Related Names
Hocking Valley Bridge Works
Borneman, Augustus
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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
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