The Shinn Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of

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. Located in the countryside northeast of

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in Washington County, this single-span truss bridge was built in 1886 by local

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Charles T. Shinn.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1399. Built of

weatherboarded Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. ''Clapboard'' in modern America ...

walls with stone

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s and a metal roof,, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2011-03-11. the bridge features vertical siding, and its portals have remained vertical and resisted creeping into another shape. The heart of the bridge's structure employs the Burr Truss design, which mixes the

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with a wooden arch designed by

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in the sixteenth century. Shinn built his bridge to span the western branch of Wolf Creek in Palmer Township. Measuring in length, the bridge was constructed soon after the drowning of one of Shinn's children.Moore, Elma Lee. ''Ohio's Covered Bridges''.

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: Arcadia, 2010, 116. In 1976, the Shinn Bridge was listed on the

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. It qualified for inclusion on the Register because of its important historic architecture and its place in the history of Ohio, for it is one of the last few examples of Burr king post arch truss bridges still standing in the state.

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