Photo, Print, Drawing Norfolk Southern Railroad Bridge N-647.74, Spanning Stony Creek at Milepost 647.74, Pride, Ross County, OH

Title

• Norfolk Southern Railroad Bridge N-647.74, Spanning Stony Creek at Milepost 647.74, Pride, Ross County, OH

Names

• Historic American Engineering Record, creator
• Scioto Valley Railway Company
• Norfolk & Western Railway
• Norfolk Southern
• Robinson, Joseph
• Scioto Valley and New England Railroad
• Kimball, Frederick J
• Norfolk Southern, sponsor
• HDR Engineering, Inc., contractor
• Forbes, Jessica M., historian
• Gratreak, Leesa, editor
• Jepsen, Nancy, editor
• Schwartz, Leslie, photographer
• McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1968

Headings

• -  railroad bridges
• -  transportation
• -  stone arch bridges
• -  Ohio--Ross County--Pride

Latitude / Longitude

• 39.235822,-82.893288

Notes

• -  Significance: The Ohio History Connection, which serves as the State Historic Preservation Office, determined the NS bridge over Stony Creek (Bridge N-647.74) eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places in May 2020. The structure is significant at the local level under Criteria A and C. The structure is a representative example of a series of brick, stone, and concrete arches erected in the late nineteenth (ca. 1888) and early twentieth century (1909 and 1934). The SV likely built the oldest component of Bridge N-647.74, a stone arch culvert, while completing improvements to the line in the late 1880s. The improvements campaign included the replacement of wooden bridges with new iron or stone structures along the company's entire alignment from Portsmouth to Columbus, Ohio. Subsequent additions -the west expansion of the inlet in 1909 with a second masonry arch and the east expansion of the outlet in 1934 -occurred under the N&W's ownership of the bridge (July 1890–1981). In the late nineteenth century, prior to the widespread use of reinforced concrete, railroad companies typically constructed arch bridges and culverts across the United States of stone, a material known for its durability. Often, stone arch bridges were built in areas where quality stone was readily available, such as in Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, approximately 9 miles south of the bridge site. No sources explicitly state that Waverly stone was used in the construction of Bridge N-647.74, but given the bridge's proximity to the source it is a possibility local stone was used. The concrete extensions of the bridge demonstrate typical modifications railroad companies made to stone structures as part of improvements and/or repairs across the nation in the early twentieth century. Of the stone arch bridges constructed in the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, examples are considered highly significant if they retain their character-defining features, including arch rings with keystones, barrel, spandrel wall, parapet, headwalls, and abutments/wingwalls. The 1909 arch of Bridge N-647.74 retains the majority of those character-defining features, though the headwall was modified during the construction of the 1934 concrete extension. The original stone arch ring of the ca. 1888 arch is partially visible from the outlet (east end) of the structure.
• -  Survey number: HAER OH-141
• -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1888 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: 1909 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: 1934 Subsequent Work

Medium

• Photo(s): 12
• Data Page(s): 30
• Photo Caption Page(s): 2

Call Number/Physical Location

• HAER OH-141

Source Collection

• Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• oh2030

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

• image
• pdf