Built in the late nineteenth century and since bypassed, the bridge has been named a historic site.

He chose to name it for a nearby industrialist, Lyman Ballard, who had constructed a water-powered mill on the creek to grind grain approximately thirty years before.

Brown chose a seven-panel Howe truss design for the bridge, which measures 80 feet (24 m) in length.

[2] Built of wood with iron elements on abutments of limestone and covered with a metal roof,[3] the single-span bridge is covered with vertical siding and retains the original square shape of its portals.

[4] Although the Ballard Road Bridge remains in its original rural setting, its surroundings are no longer as quiet as originally; U.S. Route 35 has been constructed as a controlled-access highway immediately to the south,[2] and Ballard Road now dead-ends at the bridge.