Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Sheridan, Indiana. It encompasses 38 contributing buildings and one contributing structure in the central business district of Sheridan.”
Wikipedia article Sheridan Downtown Commercial Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly includes Main St. from E. 2nd to the Old Monon Railroad right-of-way, Sheridan, 46069
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. district
Town. Sheridan town
National Register reference number. 07000979 - 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Sheridan town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 - Sheridan Town

Condensed Milk Factory

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.

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The ground it stands on

18,460 words

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.

Storms near this property

32 since 1995

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

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Map coverage status

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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Davenport-Bradfield House	0.1 miles	1985
George Boxley Cabin	0.3 miles	2005
Roberts Chapel	6.8 miles	1996
Micajah Walden House	7.6 miles	2019
Stultz-Stanley House	8.0 miles	2022

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000979 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.

Provenance

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.
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.