The Zoarville Station Bridge is a rare survivor from the earliest period of iron bridge construction in the United States, when rapid railroad expansion gave American bridge builders an international reputation for innovation. German immigrant Albert Fink first developed this truss design for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the early 1850s, and Charles Shaler Smith, a prominent civil engineer and Fink's former assistant, designed this bridge with patented features that improved on Fink's original design. Smith's firm, Smith, Latrobe & Company of Baltimore, Maryland, built it in 1868 as a highway bridge over the Tuscarawas River in Dover. It was moved to its present site in 1905 and abandoned in 1940. In 1997 the Lebold family donated the bridge to the Camp Tuscazoar Foundation for preservation and restoration. Of the hundreds of Fink Truss bridges built in the 1800s, it is the last known example of its kind.