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W. H. Pratt Bridge, Spanning tributary North Branch of Kokosing River on Township Road 369, Fredericktown

W. H. Pratt Bridge, Spanning tributary North Branch of Kokosing River on Township Road 369, Fredericktown, Knox County, OH. Surveyed as HAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,1-, with 1 photograph and a 234-word written history.

From the record

“Township Road 369 over the a tributary of the North Branch of the Kokosing River, Fredericktown vicinity, Knox County, Ohio.”

Written record, HAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,1- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,1- · the record runs 234 words · one of 7 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

W. H. Pratt Bridge, Spanning tributary North Branch of Kokosing River on Township Road 369, Fredericktown, Knox County, OH, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

153 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Township Road 369 over the a tributary of the North Branch of the Kokosing River, Fredericktown vicinity, Knox County, Ohio. UTM: Buckeye Portland Cement Company, Beliefontaine, Ohio County of Knox (County Commissioners), 110 E. High Street, Mount Vernon, Ohio Vehicular traffic The Pratt Bridge is a 52' long concrete arch bridge with iron handrails. Built by the Buckeye Portland Cement Company during the earliest years of concrete bridge construction, its thin, flat arches resemble German concrete bridges of the 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 Source: Simmons, David A. "Early Concrete Bridge Near Fredricktown," Ohio County Engineer . May 22.

In context

Fredericktown, Ohio The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Knox County, Ohio 71 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Fredericktown

1 record

The federal surveyors worked through Fredericktown building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Sockman Road Bridge, photograph filed with the federal surveySockman Road BridgeHAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,2-3,085 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER OHIO,42-FRED.V,1-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.