The Martinsville Road Covered Bridge, west of

Martinsville, Ohio Martinsville is a village in Clinton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 463 at the 2010 census. History Martinsville was platted in 1816. By 1833, Martinsville had 75 inhabitants. In 2013, prosecutors charged a former Martinsville c ...

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, was built in 1871. It was listed on the

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in 1974. It is a

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covered bridge A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...

. It spans the East Fork of Todds Fork of the

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and is long. It was built by Zimri Wall in 1871. Wall co-founded the

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the next year, which in 1999 was one of the oldest continuously operating bridge companies in the U.S., and which considers this bridge its first work.

References

Covered bridges in Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Clinton County, Ohio Bridges completed in 1871 {{ClintonCountyOH-NRHP-stub