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Laymon Road Bridge, J. W. Denver Williams Park, Wilmington

Laymon Road Bridge, J. W. Denver Williams Park, Wilmington, Clinton County, OH. Surveyed as HAER OHIO,14-WILM,1-, with a 214-word written history.

From the record

“Along with the Sockman Road, Oak Knoll and Towpath bridges, the Laymon Road Bridge is one of the # few remaining iron bridges based on a patent design significant in Ohio's highly competitive and experimental era of iron bridge construction.”

Written record, HAER OHIO,14-WILM,1- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER OHIO,14-WILM,1- · the record runs 214 words · one of 4 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Significance

61 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,14-WILM,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Along with the Sockman Road, Oak Knoll and Towpath bridges, the Laymon Road Bridge is one of the # few remaining iron bridges based on a patent design significant in Ohio's highly competitive and experimental era of iron bridge construction. Designed by Joseph Davenport and built by the Massillon Bridge Company, the Laymon Road Bridge is an iron lattice bowstring truss.

Written history

55 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER OHIO,14-WILM,1-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

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.

In context

Wilmington, Ohio The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Clinton County, Ohio 47 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report as the survey filed it.

Also surveyed in Clinton County

3 records

The federal survey recorded these other structures elsewhere in Clinton County. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Midland School Building, photograph filed with the federal surveyMidland School BuildingHABS OHIO,14-MID,1-775 words
E. Harris House, photograph filed with the federal surveyE. Harris HouseHABS OHIO,14-NEVIE.V,1-275 words
Covered Bridge, photograph filed with the federal surveyCovered BridgeHABS OHIO,14-CLARK,1-30 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER OHIO,14-WILM,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.