Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Free Frank McWorter was an American born into slavery who bought his freedom in Kentucky and in 1836 founded the town of New Philadelphia in Illinois; he was the first African American to plat and register a town, and establish a planned community in the United States. The New Philadelphia town site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2009 and made a National Park Service site in 2022.”
Wikipedia article Free Frank McWorter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 11 National Register listings published here for Pike County · listed in 1988 · category: Site · built in 1854.
National Register reference number.87002533- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
No working organization was effected in Hadley Township, as most of the work was done in conjunction with the Barry Township Unit. The committee, however, which was appointed to help in the work in our unit was as follows: Mrs. Mary McDaniel, Mrs. Eliza Sykes, Mrs. Mabel Hull, Mrs. Chas. Shelley, Mrs. Anna Gleckler, Mrs. Minnie Kerr, Mrs. Gladys McCarl, Miss Faye McTucker. ,
During registration week 168 women were registered in the township. Work in all departments was done in connection with the Barry Township Unit. The ladies of Oak Grove and the Helping Hand Society deserve special praise for the splendid help given us.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Free Frank McWorter Grave Site
between 2009 and 2013, burning about 58 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Free Frank McWorter Grave Site: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Barry, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 21 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off of the library, causing some water damage to the museum that is on the second floor of the building. Also, numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
Numerous large trees were blown over damaging homes and parked vehicles in Barry. Winds as high as 70 mph were also reported in Pittsfield knocking down numerous trees across town. Reported by local newspapers.
A wide swath of damaging winds occurred across the northern half of Pike County. Numerous trees, tree limbs, power poles and power lines were blown down in Barry, Griggsville and northeast of Pittsfield. A couple of homes in Griggsville and Barry sustained minor roof and siding damage.
Thunderstorm winds caused minor damage in Barry. A metal storage shed was blown over and a large tree was blown down. The tree landed on a mobile home causing minor roof damage.
The first Pike County tornado touched down 1.2 miles south of Barry, at the intersection of 1850N and 1750E. The tornado damaged a house at this location that was made of prefabricated panels of compressed Styrofoam insulation. The roof was completely lifted off with some of the panels being deposited 250 yards to the north. The entire north wall fell away from the structure. Debris was scattered across an open field up to one mile to the northeast. At this location, the tornado was 100 yards wide and produced F0 damage. Further to the northeast along the track on 1900N, several outbuildings were damaged and a two foot diameter walnut tree was blown over. The residence had minor shingle, siding and trim damage. The tornado was 200 yards wide and produced F0 damage at this location. The tornado continued northeast 3.5 miles toward Hadley, crossing I-72 near mile marker 22. Along this portion of the track, the tornado caused minor exterior damage to residences and produced minor tree damage. The tornado ranged from 50 to 100 yards wide and produced F0 damage. In Hadley, a two story brick home sustained extensive damage. The roof was lifted off and destroyed. The back half of the second story was completely demolished. Extensive tree damage also occurred. A grain wagon and auger were tipped over. A barn lost some of its tin roof and two wooden telephone poles were leaning east. Debris was scattered northeast for about half a mile. At this location, the tornado was 150 yards wide and produced F1 damage. The tornado dissipated one mile northeast of Hadley.
Thunderstorm wind gusts caused scattered damage in Barry. A few trees and power lines were downed, the chimney on a home was blown down, and a trailer at a service station was blown over.
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.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 miles
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.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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