The Hune Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge

Covered bridge

A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating only a single lane of traffic. Most covered bridges are wooden; some newer ones are concrete or metal with glass sides...

 in the southeastern part of the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

. Located northeast of the community of Dart, it spans the Little Muskingum River

Little Muskingum River

The Little Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 65 mi long, in southeast Ohio in the United States.It rises in the hill country of Monroe County, approximately 5 mi northwest of the Ohio River and 8 mi southeast of Woodsfield...

 in northeastern Lawrence Township

Lawrence Township, Washington County, Ohio

Lawrence Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Washington County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 956 people in the township.-Geography:Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:...

 in the eastern part of Washington County

Washington County, Ohio

Washington County is a county located in the state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 61,778. Its county seat is Marietta. The county, the oldest in the state, is named for George Washington. Washington County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio...

. Local bridge builder Rollin Meredith erected it in 1879, using the Long Truss style of truss bridge

Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges...

 design; the single-span

Span (architecture)

Span is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, e.g. a beam or a bridge.A span can be closed by a solid beam or of a rope...

 bridge was named for the locally prominent Hune family. Among its design features are a metal roof, abutment

Abutment

An abutment is, generally, the point where two structures or objects meet. This word comes from the verb abut, which means adjoin or having common boundary. An abutment is an engineering term that describes a structure located at the ends of a bridge, where the bridge slab adjoins the approaching...

s of cut stone, and vertical siding. As a Long Truss, the Hune Bridge is a valuable example of nineteenth-century architecture: few examples of this complicated style survive to the present day. In 1976, the Hune Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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, both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant construction.