BlockFrom the record
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dubois County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Zoar Public School, Zoar Methodist Church, Zoar Cemetery
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8818 West Old State Road 64 and Zoar Church Road, Zoar, 47541
- When was it listed? December 2023
- Category. building
- Also known as. Indiana's Public Common and High Schools MPS
- Township. Cass township
- National Register reference number. 100009589 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
The ground it stands on
2,531 wordsThe chapter on Cass Township in History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names Zoar. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Zoar. This place is partly in Pike county. The church building and school house are in Dubois county. The postoffice and cemetery are in Pike county. It is on the Huntingburg and Stendal road in Cass and Lockhart townships. Its church was erected 1871, and its school house in 1897. Mrs. Tellejohn was first postmistress. Zoar is 563 feet above the sea.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
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 Cass Township - 2,531 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Zoar Public School, Zoar Methodist Church, Zoar Cemetery: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartelt Mine | Clay | Producer |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Grove Campground | 3.3 miles | 2021 | |
 | Huntingburg Town Hall and Fire Engine House | 6.5 miles | 1975 |
 | Huntingburg Commercial Historic District | 6.6 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009589 in Record Group 79. |
| Dubois County | All 19 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.