Junction Road Bridge, Junction Road (Township Road 235)spanning Four Mile Creek, Morning Sun, Preble County, OH. Surveyed as HAER OHIO,68-MORSU.V,1-, with 1 photograph and a 250-word written history.
“Junction Road Bridge, Junction Road (Township Road 235)spanning Four Mile Creek, Morning Sun, Preble County, OH”
Survey record header. Machine-read text.
surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER OHIO,68-MORSU.V,1- · the record runs 250 words · one of 3 surveyed structures published for this county.
1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,68-MORSU.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
UTM: C Unknown Preble County (County Commissioners), Courthouse, Eaton, Ohio Vehicular traffic The Junction Road Bridge is a bowstring arch truss bridge, a popular design in the nineteenth century. Its bow is a lattice similar to a Howe truss in its pattern of diagonals and verticals. It was probably built by the Massilon Iron Bridge Company of Massilon, Ohio, which built bowstring bridges based on a design patented in by its founder, Joseph Davenport. The Ohio Cast- and Wrought-Iron Bridges Project was cosponsored by HAER, Dr. Robert J. Kapsch Chief; the Instute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, Dr. Emory L.
Kemp, Director; the Ohio Historical Society, Gary Ness, Director and David Simmons, Historic Bridge Specialist; and the Department of Architecture, Ohio State University, Jose Obrerie, Chairman. Wm. Michael Lawrence, Historian HAER No. OH-82, Sockman Road Bridge, Fredericktown, OH. Bridge Files at the Ohio Historical Society (Compiled by David A. Simmons, OHS).
| Morning Sun, Ohio | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Preble County, Ohio | 60 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above. |
The federal survey recorded these other structures elsewhere in Preble County. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
| Sheet | Structure | Survey | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Harshman Bridge | HAER OH-126 | 13,489 words |
 | Roberts Bridge | HABS OHIO,68-EATO.V,1- | 36 words |
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