Connersville Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Fayette County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Eastern & Grand Aves., E. & W. 4th & 9th Sts., Connersvile, 47331
When was it listed? March 2017
Category. district
Township. Connersville township
National Register reference number. 100000713 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

5,332 words

This property stands in Connersville Township. History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies, Etc., Etc. .., published 1885 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers organization anu boundaries, land sales, early settlement and incidents, early schools, early mills, distilleries, etc, churches and graveyards, east connersville.

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 Connersville Township - 5,332 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Connersville Downtown Historic District: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Fayette Co. Hwy. Dept. - Own Crews	Stone	Producer
Connersville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Park Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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

6 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
Trinity Episcopal Church & Parish House	0.1 miles	2022
Fayette County Courthouse	0.2 miles	2006
Canal House	0.2 miles	1973
Newkirk Mansion	0.4 miles	2021
Elmhurst	0.9 miles	1977
Roberts Park	2.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000713 in Record Group 79.
Fayette County	All 9 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.