Nomination for Byer Covered Bridge

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) 2 1.

1975 AND/ OR HISTORIC: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: #10 TO THE PUBLIC - Building - Preservation work - Agricultural - Comments OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: AUG 1 9 1975 039 079 ACCESSIBLE LOCATION Site Commercial Religious Jackson STATE RECEIVED DATE Entertainment CLASSIFICATION Court House Restricted OWNERSHIP Government Transportation REGISTER Private NAME Both Unoccupied Educational District CATEGORY Being Considered CODE County STATUS Museum Public Scientific Park Yes: Industrial at Byer Private Residence Jackson County COMMON: Object Clarence E.

Miller Byer Covered Bridge OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Public Acquisition: DATA SHEET Military County road 3l at Byer X Structure STREET AND NUMBER: (Check One) CITY OR TOWN: Other (Specify) In Process Ohio PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) ENTRY NUMBER - Federal OCT & 1 1975 NATIONAL DESCRIPTION (Check One) - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed 4 Unaltered X Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Ohio. This old bridge has vertical, high-boarded siding, a bution of the load, its lightness and cheapness. The Byer Bridge is a 7 panel Smith with a 74 floor length and an over- 1934. CONDITION Moved Fair This is known as the Byer Covered Bridge and was built in features reinforcement of the center panel with 2 diagonals. The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss sheet metal roof, concrete abutments and projected portals. Raymond E.Wilson in the April l967 Covered Bridge Topics All Smith truss types feature rigidly fastened roof and floor Byer Bridge is a Smith truss, type 3. A type 3 Smith truss stringers.Mr.Smith claimed that the advantages of his truss truss members measure from 7" x 6" to 8" x 8". type were to be found in the method of bracing, equal distr1- width 1s 13'8". The floor is made up of 3" planks of untreated ana 1009 by Robert W.

Smith of Tipp City, later Toledo, Ohio. a 45° angle between 60° counterbraces. Bridge truss expert all length of 82'. The overall width is 17'4" and the roadway Excellent Good covered bridge spanning Pigeon Creek at Byer in Washington oak laid diagonally.All truss members are single timbers ex- Township sections 7-8 on county road 31 in Jackson County, not the original foundations of the bridge, but were there when The 1869 patent,#97,714,was an improvement on the 1867 patent.It featured an open center panel and braces set at - Pre-Columbian! - 20th Century AREAS OF

Statement of significance

the west and southeast by the Richland State Forest. This 1s one of only three such spans left in Jackson County, is in Engineering Conservation Commerce Science Military Historical losophy Architecture Communications Aboriginal Education Industry Literature Landscape SIGNIFICANCE itarian Religion/Phi Agriculture Music today. Prehistoric Social/Human- Invention Political trusses and shipped them by railroad to the buildingsite. There good condition and well-worthy of preservation. white. Byer Covered Bridge, also painted white, is an important group of prehistoric Indian rock carvings.

Byer is a small, Buttermilk Hollow,Log Pile Hollow, Skunk Hollow and Tick this may account for the fact that all the covered bridges of miles southwest of Byer is Leo Petroglyph State Memorial, a built when coal was king in Jackson County.Richland Iron Fur- was part of the old Hanging Rock Iron Region and just about trially interesting section of the state.The old bridge was road system again.Byer Bridge is in an historically and indus- part of the community and has been for over a century now. It nace a few miles away was still in operation at the time.

Three is one of only two Ohioans ever to be given a patent on wooden Ohio and elsewhere in the country.Fifteen remain here in Ohio In 1934,the State Highway Department took over the road through in the early l87o's, probably by the Smith Bridge Company.One Other (Specify) PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) early 1870's SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 3 miles northeast of Byer are the remains of old Richland Iron as Ellsworth and the name was changed to Byers in honor of the was & Smith Bridge Company representative in Portsmouth and Art Source says that the builder was W.H.

Connery.If this was bridge trusses.Hundreds of Smith trusses were built here in then it would have been under the direct supervision of way Department rerouted SR 327 around Byer to the north and quiet residential community where most of the houses are painted Furnace.his is also an area of colorful place names such as Byer and it became SR 327.In the late 1930's, the State High- Sylvester, Editor, Jackson, Ohio 1953, pages 27& 28. Printing Company, 1969, page 91.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGIT-IDE COORDINA TES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POINI OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES W 82° 37' AUG 19 1975) FORM PREPARED BY STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion 'he National Register in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set level of significance of this nomination is: - State Historic Preservation Officer Director, Ohio Historical Society * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-1 Degrees one RECEIVED ATTEST: Name Local LONGITUDE NATIONAL STATE LATITUDE REGISTER ORGANIZATION COUNTY CORNER Title CODE 039 Columbus August 15, 1975 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ohio Date Ohio Covered Bridge Committee NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION 3155 Whitehead Road Degrees Minutes Seconds Inc., Volume 4, Jackson County. 4i #l, January 1933, page 75. STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: CITY OR TOWN: Utmok History of Jackson County, Sesquicentennial Edition, John E. ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES I hereby certify that this property is inctoded in the forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Ketcham, Bryan E., Covered Bridges on the Byways of Ohio, Oxford JUTM 17 359100 4337750 Seconds Record Books of the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, Miriam F.

Wood Stout, Wilbur, Journal of the Ohio Historical Society, Volume Working Number 8.19. 75. 1588 Photos _ ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Accept Inventory - REVIEW UNIT CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Re-submit . INT:2106- 74 OTHER HAER Maps TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST HISTORIAN Review CONTROL Send-back 9-2-75 State BRANCH CHIEF 12-2-75 Jackson Col Property K Entered DCT21 1075 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 KEEPER 8.22,73 South Portal, hooking north NPS Number _ PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Loc. Clo Form No. 10-301e OCT 2 1 1975 ommonByer Covered Bridge AUG 1 9 1975 = PHOTO CREDITMiriam F. Wood DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

039 REGISTER DATE NATIONAL Jackson STATE CODE at Byer NAME RECEIVED IDENTIFICATION ENTRY NUMBER PHOTO REFERENCE County road NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM STREET AND NUMBER: FOR NPS USE ONLY CITY OR TOWN: AND/OR HISTORIC: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR South portal, looking north Ohio NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) Columbus, Ohio 43204 LOCATION at Byer Jackson Countg, OHO South portal, east side hooking PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER northwest NPS Number Byer Covered Bridge Loc. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COMMON: Byer Covered Bridge LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: AUG 1 9 1975 Columbus, Ohio 43204 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

South portal, east side, looking northwest 039 REGISTER DATE NAME STATE RECEIVED CODE County road Jackson NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PHOTO REFERENCE at Byer ENTRY NUMBER FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with photograph) (7/72) DENTIFICATION AND/OR HISTORIC: CITY OR TOWN: Ohio CCT 2 1 1973 NEGATIVE FILED AT: 3155 Whitehead Road County road 31 079 PHOTo cREDIT: Miriam F. Wood Form No. 10-301 Rev. 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OCT 2 1 1975 Byer Covered Bridge AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUM BER: U.S.G.S. Byer Quadrangle SCALE: 1:24000 TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS AUG 1 9 1975 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 197 039 Byer 079 REGISTER COUNTY REQUIREMENTS RECEIVED CODE DATE NAME LOCATION Jackson NATIONAL County road 31 STATE MAP REFERENCE COMMON: PROPERTY MAP FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES SOURCE: Ohio ENTRY NUMBER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) CITY OR TOWN: FOR NPS USE ONLY 31441 3-1 BYER, OHIO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED BYER QUADRANGLE UTM 17 359100 4337750 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) AUG 13 1975 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Byer Bridge Mt. Sterling vicinity De. Thomas H. Smith Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue Columbua, Ohio 73211 INT: 2950-75 Location STATE Name Hon.

Also Notified Ashtabula County MMot Byer vicinity Date Entered Jackson County Butler County Dunlap and Ross ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Regional Director, Midwest Region Society Fayette County Jackson Mound Hamilton County Hon. Donald D. Clancy Bogan-Borger Hound Demoret Mound Ross vicinity Archaeological Districe Dunlap Archeological District Clinton County Windsor Mills Fort and Weat Portsmouth vicinity Moore, Philip,Stone House Village Site Hon.J.William Stanton Kelter Hound State Historic Preservatlon Office Scioto County Robert Taft, Windsor Miils viciniey Wilmingeon 10/2 2 OTHER NAMES: 3 date of entry: 4) county code: (12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL I state who prepared form & WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK?

15 ACREAGE -PRIVATE ORGANIZATION 6 CONDITION - deteriorated 1features: 2O SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 Dexcellent Omoved OO NOT INTACT-O - Unknown 20 NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access IAREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : C POLITICS / GOYT.- 21 -RECREATION -28 CLAIMS: explain "first'O CARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric -2 - COMMERCE -6 - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 DARCHEGLOGY -historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS-1 -EXPLORATION -12 - LITERATURE - 17 C SCIENCE- 23 DURBAN PLANNING-31 -oldest' O - CONSERVATION -8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY - 18 C ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 C INDUSTRY- 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL - 30 'only' D D ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 D PHILOSOPHY - 20 C TRANSPORTATION-25 3 functions & arch iteotural style(s): @master bullder: © landscape arohiteot/ garden designer: 1) Interior decorator: IF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER& PUT ON REVERSE ASSOCIATION 079 ENTERTAINMENT-26 historic events: CURRENTLY: ENGINEERING-11 major alterations: EVENTS: INSTITUTIONAL: ADMINISTRATOR: SAVED?YES vicinity of Dfair Oruins LANDSCAPE ARCH.15 Dexcavated Doriginal site LOCATiON street& number Daltered LOCAL ACR!CULTURE-3 GNPS REGION: State Dunexposed - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -24 'OTHER (SPECIFY) historical @artist: @architeot: PERSONAL: NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET YES-Restricted YES-Unrestricted YES.NAME Bartisan: YES.HAME Miriam WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISIORIC DISTRICT?

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