Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
“The Cortland Condit House is a historic house located on Center Street in Putnam, Putnam County, Illinois. The house was built in 1849-50 by Cortland Condit.”
Wikipedia article Cortland Condit House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 3 National Register listings published here for Putnam County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
An account from the chapter on Senachwine township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
The alarm spread, homes were abandoned, the plow was left in the furrow, all kinds of property was forsaken, the people fleeing from the murderous rifle and tomahawk. All the inhabitants on the west side of the Illinois crossed over to the east side where they fixed the frontier and made a stand.
This property stands in Senachwine Township. History of Putnam County from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1876, published 1877 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Senachwine Township - 3,827 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cortland Condit House: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheely Quarry Renner's Quarry Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Crowder Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Edwin Hank Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hennepin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Stadel Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Putnam County Courthouse | 5.7 miles | 1975 |
 | Edward Pulsifer House | 6.0 miles | 1979 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83000335 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Putnam County | All 3 listed properties in this county. |
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