Veedersburg First Christian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

“Judge Joseph Coats (deceased) was born in 1802, and was a native of Loudoun county, Yirginia. At the age of two years he emigrated to Garret county, Kentucky, with his parents, Elisha and Celia (Furr) Coats, where he lived till grown.”
History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts (1881). Machine-read text.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Fountain County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 301 North Mill Street, Veedersburg, 47987
When was it listed? September 2025
Category. building
Township. Van Buren township
National Register reference number. 100012173 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

20,751 words

The chapter on Van Buren Township in History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881 names Veedersburg. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The second society of the United Brethren church holds its meetings in the Methodist Episcopal church at Sterling. This class proper is the one that formerly held its services in Chambersburg. It is prospecting for a new church building to be built in Veedersburg. The society is in an active working condition. The third society is at Stone Bluff. This society was organized at this place in 1860. The prominent members were Samuel Morgan and Francis Markham. The prosperity of the society has usually been good. It now has under progress of erection a new frame church 32x48, which, w lien completed, will be second to none in the township. The present trustees of this society are George Dice, Samuel Morgan, and John Simpson. It numbers fifty active members. The Sunday-school connected with the society is in a live condition.

Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.

The Christian Disciples. This order, under this name, first made its appearance in Van Buren township in 1835, at Cool Springs Church, where it remained a successful society till 1874, when it removed to Veedersburg, erecting at that place a handsome frame churchhouse at a cost of §2,000. Among its first prominent members are the names of Daniel Osborn, Isac Spinning, Aaron Death, John Jack, John Deth, Harvy Applegate, and William Osborn. A great part of these united, under the name of Disciples, at Cool Springs Church, in 1835. This society, now located at Veedersburg, is one of the most active in the township. Eev. Martin is the present ofiiciating clergyman. Prominent among its members are John McClure, Watson Clark, D. C. Smith, Oliver Osborn, E. M. Osborn, D. K. Smith, and Harvy Young. The society now has fifty members ; the Sunday-school has an attendance of 112.

Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.

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 Van Buren Township - 20,751 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Veedersburg First Christian Church: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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
	C. A. Miller Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	F. I. Mitchell Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fountain County

Storms near this property

26 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veedersburg, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
May 2004	Lightning	Veedersburg	1 killed	A 24 year old male was hit by lightning on a baseball field and died shortly thereafter.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$350,000	Large tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts on a house. Numerous other reports of downed trees across the county with over 2500 power outages.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds downed power poles on West Public Service Road and blew metal roofing into fields on both sides of US Highway 136, one-eighth to one-quarter mile west of Interstate 74 overpass.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$20,000	Trees and utility lines were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Scattered reports came in from around the county of this type of damage.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$5,000	Several trees, up to three feet in diameter, were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$1,000	Multiple large tree limbs downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Veedersburg	$1,000	This EF-0 tornado, with a max wind speed of 75 mph, primarily went across cornfields while glancing two homesteads, where a few large tree branches were downed and one large trash dumpster blown over in a direction opposite from the environmental wind at the time.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$1,000	Trees and power lines downed.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	$500	no account filed
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	A 67 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	This was a public report of an estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust in this location.
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Veedersburg	-	Movement of the funnel cloud was to the southeast.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	Trees were downed.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	Trees were downed.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	Veedersburg	-	State police reported a brief weak tornado touchdown in a field near Veedersburg.
March 2026	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
September 2006	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Veedersburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fountain 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
Veedersburg Clover Leaf Route Depot	0.2 miles	2020
Cades Mill Covered Bridge	4.3 miles	2021
Clinton F. Hesler Farm	4.5 miles	1989
William C. B. Sewell House	7.1 miles	1984
Carnegie Library of Covington	7.2 miles	1989
Covington Residential Historic District	7.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012173 in Record Group 79.
Fountain 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.
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.