Dublin Friends Meeting House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2352 W Maple St., Dublin, 47335
When was it listed? September 2018
Category. building
Township. Jackson township
National Register reference number. 100002868 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

10,460 words

The chapter on Jackson Township in History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872 names Dublin. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The town of Dublin was laid out by Harmon Davis. The original plat, made out ami signed by him as proprietor, was recorded Jan. 29, 1830. Additions have since been made as follows: First, by Robert Murphy and Eli Brown, trustees for Dempsey Boswell & Sons ; in 1846, by Albertsoii Chappell, Abraham Symonds, Jacob Custer, Beiij. Griffin, John Whippo, J. P. Creager, Caleb W. Witt, Win. McKimmey ; in 1837, by C. AV. Wht; in 1838, by Samuel Schoolfield; in 1868 by Samuel Pierce and Mark H. Perkins. When the town was first laid out, there was not a building on the ground. The first house was a log house built by Isaac King, on what is known as Cook's corner.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

The Dublin Academy was established in 1837, by a joint stock companj". The building was afterward occupied as a public school-house. In 1867 it was taken down, and the present house built, which was dedicated January 1, 1868. Its cost was about §15,000. Scholars enrolled, about 450.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

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 Jackson Township - 10,460 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dublin Friends Meeting House: 1 producer. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cambridge City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

9 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dublin, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin	$5,000	A few trees and power lines were downed.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin	$5,000	A tree was knocked down onto a house.
December 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin	$3,000	Two 2 1/2 foot diameter pine trees were knocked down.
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Dublin	$1,000	One tree was reported down south of Dublin due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Hail	Dublin	$1,000	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Dublin	$1,000	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Dublin	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Dublin	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Dublin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Witt-Champe-Myers House	0.4 miles	1995
Huddleston House Tavern, The	1.4 miles	1975
Cambridge City Historic District	2.0 miles	1991
Conklin-Montgomery House	2.4 miles	1975
Lackey-Overbeck House	2.6 miles	1976
Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey House)	5.0 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002868 in Record Group 79.
Wayne County	All 40 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.
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.