Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 19 historic map sheets show this location, the earliest from 1904.
From the record
“The Hune Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located northeast of the community of Dart, it spans the Little Muskingum River in northeastern Lawrence Township in the eastern part of Washington County.”
Wikipedia article Hune Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 39 National Register listings in Washington County · listed in 1976 · category: STRUCTURE · significant for ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Washington County.
National Register reference number.76001545- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1904 to 2002
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The chapter covers general physical features and geological formation, first settlement, old families, eccentric characters, german emigration, scotch emigration.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Hune Covered Bridge between
2001 and 2019, burning about 63 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Debris and open burning
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 259 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hune Covered Bridge between 1853 and
1975: 240 Animalia, 17 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Albert Hazen Wright, B. F. Story, BRYAN, C R; BRYAN, B A and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Dart, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2011: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by geocoding the centre of Dart, because the National Register records a descriptive location rather than a street address, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
CONDITION EXCELLENT UNALTERED portion of this bridge sets on rather high cut-stone piers and there are open is above each portals siding, a metal roof, straight portals and cut-stone abutments. The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered bridge truss and the first truss into which mathematical calculations entered.The over the Little Muskingum River in Washington County, the covered wooden truss ment for an original one of shingles.The bridge appears to have always been on the Hune Bridge are straight, and the north portals is gracefully arched, wooden truss consisting of a series of braces and counterbraces forming an X 7 DESCRIPTION This is known as the Hune Bridge and was built in l877 by Rollin Meredith truss length.
The roadway width is ll'l and the overall width of the bridge between wooden verticals.The Long truss is considered to be the first panel H.Long of the U.S.Army Topographical Engineers.The Long truss is an all - DETERIORATED unpainted and has weathered to a soft gray color. - UNEXPOSED ship road 34 just east of SR 26 at Lawrence,13miles northeast of Marietta, _RUINS - FAIR X_ GOOD ramps and bridge proper have a single layer floor, laid crosswise.
The portals spanning the Little Muskingum River in Lawrence Township section 6 on town- while the south portal is cut diagonally.A sign giving the name of the bridge XALTERED piers and the main span.These wooden approach ramps are simple stringer construction and have no truss of any kind.They have wooden railings.Both As far as can be determined, the outward appearance of the Hune Bridge has using the Long truss plan. The Long truss was patented in 1830 by Col. Stephan wooden approach ramps on each end leading from cut-stone abutments to the AREAS OF
Statement of significance
came known as Lawrence. William Hune, a prosperous tobacco farmer and stock- According to the late Dr- H. Bo Hune oi Caldwell, Ohlo, Lawrence was a community Bridge in 1877 by Rollin Meredith, a contractor from Marietta, Ohio. Mr. Meredith a fitting tribute to its builder, Rollin Meredith, a member of a well-known 1700-1799 1500-1599 Historical ART EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS PERIOD COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE RELIGION LITERATURE MILITARY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC INVENTION general store, sorghum mill, tannery, tie houses, packing houses, livery barn, _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _PHILOSOPHY .POLITICS/GOVERNMENT Washington County covered bridge building family.
scene today.The old covered bridge still carries traffic as it approaches _CONSERVATION X.ENGINEERING X.TRANSPORTATION that took care of itself.Dr.Hune remembered the building of the Hune Covered _PREHISTORIC 525 acres with six or more settlers cabins on it.Mr.Hune was instrumental of the Lawrence area used an abandoned coal mine. _COMMERCE _1600-1699 _SCIENCE Settlement" grew up along both sides of the river in the area that later be- and that the stone for the abutments was quarried there also.
_SCULPTURE the early settlers of the area with all their needs as it had a grist mill, of Lawrence was formed in 1815 and a community known as the"Bittle Muskingum the century mark.It isa fine example of the now rare Long truss plan and _THEATER _INDUSTRY _1900- -_1400-1499 -MUSIC _LAW settlers in this area.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001545, 17 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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