Salmon Turrell Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Salmon Turrell Farmstead is a historic home and farm located in Whitewater Township, Franklin County, Indiana. The house was built about 1830, and is a two-story, four-bay, Federal style brick I-house.”
Wikipedia article Salmon Turrell Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Turrell, Salmon, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3051 Snow Hill Rd., West Harrison, 47060
When was it listed? June 2009
Category. building
Township. Whitewater township
National Register reference number. 09000423 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Salmon Turrell Farmstead: 2 producers, 2 plants. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dry Fork Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Harrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Harrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
New Trenton Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin 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

3 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
Snow Hill Covered Bridge	0.5 miles	1995
Cedar Grove Bridge	4.7 miles	2014
Little Cedar Grove Baptist Church	7.7 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000423 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 13 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.
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.