Built in 1828. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1828.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
An account from the chapter on Sheridan town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
The Indiana Condensed Milk Company's plant at Sheridan is among the largest of its kind in the country. It was established about the year 1900 by W. N. Wilson, succeeding the old butter works that had been there many years before this latter organization. Mr. Wilson was accidentally killed by the explosion of a sterilizing equipment.
The chapter on Sheridan Town in History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 names Sheridan. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Sheridan, the second town in size in Hamilton county, is situated in the southwestern part of Adams township, on the Monon railroad connecting with Westfield, Carmel and Indianapolis to the south and Chicago to the north. The town was laid out in i860 by Egbert Higbee on the south side of the pike road running east and west. Higbee gave the town the name of Millwood. On the north side of the road, opposite Millwood, Caswell Boxlev laid out an addition to the town. Some years later, when application was made for a postoffice at this point, it was found that there already was a Millwood in the state, so the towns on both sides of the road were united under the one name, Sheridan.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915.
The pioneer business men of Sheridan were P. G. Pearson, 1866, harness shop; Dr. H. Moore, general merchandise. In 1866 Egbert Higbee built the first flouring mill at Sheridan, but for some reason the mill was not, operated for two years. In 1868 three men, Cyrus Jessup, Eliel Jessup and J. P. Peason, went into partnership with Mr. Higbee and under their joint management the mill was put into operation for a short time. It then changed hands and finally was purchased by J. P. Peason and operated for years under the firm style of Peason & Son. In the early years a saw mill was operated in connection with the grist mill.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915.
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 Sheridan Town - 18,460 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 11 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Lightning | Sheridan | 6 hurt | Six people were struck by lightning at at paintball facility in Sheridan. Two were treated and released at the scene, with four being transported to area hospitals for treatment. The injuries were not serious. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | 2 hurt, $50,000 | Ten buildings were damaged, numerous trees down, and two semi trucks blown over by thunderstorm winds. Injuries were reported but no exact number given. A barn was said to be destroyed by the thunderstorm winds, which was likely among the aforementioned damaged buildings. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | 2 hurt, $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down the second story of a building under construction injuring two. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | 1 hurt, $50,000 | Damage was spread across the northern portion of Hamilton county. Most of the damage was in a line from Sheridan to Arcadia to Omega to Aroma then out of the county to the north-northeast. Trees of different diameters were downed. About 10 structures, most of them barns, had been damaged and trees blocked several roadways. In addition two semi tractor-trailers had blown over, one at 236th Street and US 31 causing personal injury and another at 281st Street and Indiana 213, in which a tree fell on top of a semi. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Sheridan | $5,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Sheridan | $40,000 | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | $10,000 | Multiple trees and power lines were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2013 | Flood | Sheridan | $10,000 | Residents reported their homes being surrounded by water due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. This report was received via Facebook. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | $5,000 | A semi truck was blown over at SR 421 and SR 47. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | $3,000 | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a two and a half foot diameter tree just west of Sheridan on the Hamilton-Boone County line. Crops in the same vicinity were also damaged by the winds. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Sheridan | - | Thunderstorm hail as large as tennis balls in and north of Sheridan. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Sheridan | - | Report was relayed via Skywarn network. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | A wind gust, measured at 67 mph, was observed in Sheridan. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | A wind gust, measured at 75 mph, was observed in Sheridan on a Davis Weather Instruments meter. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated to be at least 60 MPH. Dime size hail accompanied these winds. |
| February 2009 | Heavy Rain | Sheridan | - | A storm total of 2.05 inches of rainfall was recorded. The event begin time is roughly estimated. This same observer also reported a 72 MPH wind gust on this day, as documented separately in this publication. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | A large tree was downed. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | A tree was downed and minor structural damage was caused to a home and a shed. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Tree limbs were broken along State Road 47. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Trees were downed. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | Ten-inch-diamter healthy limbs blown down. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Sheridan | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Davenport-Bradfield House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District | 0.3 miles | 2007 |
 | Roberts Chapel | 6.7 miles | 1996 |
| Micajah Walden House | 7.5 miles | 2019 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 05001010 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hamilton County | All 31 listed properties in this county. |
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