The bridge carries U.S. Route 40 over Little Wheeling Creek in Elm Grove.

Shepherd rose to prominence in the area and befriended House Speaker Henry Clay, a friendship credited with the National Road running through Wheeling as well as Shepherd being awarded contracts to construct all bridges along the National Road in Ohio County[2] The construction on the bridge began in 1817 and was completed later the same year.

The bridge reaches 208 feet in length over the Little Wheeling Creek below.

Original buttresses were removed in 1931 to make room for sidewalks on either side of the driving lanes.

The road has been paved with asphalt several times but has not destroyed the natural integrity in which it was designed and built in 1817.