Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
“John and Caroline Stonebraker House is a historic home located at Hagerstown, Indiana. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, "L"-plan, Italianate style frame dwelling with a bracketed hipped roof.”
Wikipedia article John and Caroline Stonebraker House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Jefferson Township in History of Wayne County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, published 1884 names Hagerstown. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Jefferson Township lies on the west line of the county, and north of the central part. It is bounded on the north by Dalton and a part of Perry townships; on the east, by Perry, Clay and Harrison; south, by Harrison and Jackson, and west by Henry County. It is six miles east and west, and five miles north and south less two sections on the south tier in the southeast corner of the township. This gives it twentyeight square miles of land, or in acres, 17,920. Of this number of acres 17,162.78 is found on the assessment roll without counting Hagerstowti, and is assessed as follows: Eeal estate, 1882, $658,995; personal property, $264,623, a total of $923,578. Hagerstown, realty, $133,990; Hagerstown, personal, $85,720; total valuation of township, $1,143,288. The township poll number," 198 ; Hagerstown poll number, 164; total vote, 362.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, published 1884.
The township was organized in March, 1834, and the voting precinct was located at Hagerstown. It is a good agricultural township, well watered, and in the valleys of the streams coursing through its territory can be found a superior quality of arable land, in fact unsurpassed anywhere. The West Branch of the Whitewater nearly divides it in two equal parts, running as it does nearly through the center of the township from north to south. On the east is Martindale's Creek, flowing in a southerly course, and on the west Nettle Creek, coming into the township near the northwest corner and flowing in a southwesterly course, empties into the "West Branch. Below this are two other small streams flowing into the West Branch. Thus it may be said to be well watered, and a fine stock-raising section.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, published 1884.
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 Jefferson Township - 5,660 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John & Caroline Stonebraker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hagerstown, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 31 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $10,000 | A sign was blown off a hardware store, and a few trees were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $8,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hagerstown | $8,000 | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $6,000 | Trees were downed, at least on a car. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Hagerstown | $6,000 | no account filed |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | A tree was downed on Dalton Road in Hagerstown due to thunderstorm winds. Trees were also downed in Mount Auburn and Cambridge. Wires were reported down in Richmond. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down across Jerry Myers Road. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down by a 70 mph wind gust. |
| April 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | Utility poles were downed. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Multiple trees were downed in Hagerstown. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | A tree was uprooted and damage occurred to an exterior porch addition. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Large trees and power lines were reported down throughout the county. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Power lines were knocked down. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Large tree limbs and power poles were downed. |
| October 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Two trees and a large limb were downed across the central portion of the county. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Roof was peeled off of a barn |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced winds that knocked down several trees. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | Trees downed. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $2,000 | A few power lines were downed. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $2,000 | A tree was downed onto a power line. |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $2,000 | Two trees were downed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A tree was downed on State Route 1. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A large tree was downed on Washington Street. |
| June 2018 | Lightning | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A tree was hit and knocked down by a lightning strike. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down near the intersection of Hoover Rd. and Lacy Rd. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | One tree was knocked down along W.E. Oler Road and Lacy Road. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A large limb was reported down northwest of Hagerstown due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $1,000 | A tree was reported down on a road due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hagerstown | $250 | Several large tree limbs were downed on Olive Branch Road. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Hagerstown | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Hagerstown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hagerstown | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Hagerstown | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Hagerstown | - | no account filed |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hagerstown I.O.O.F. Hall | 0.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Conklin-Montgomery House | 6.7 miles | 1975 |
 | Lackey-Overbeck House | 6.8 miles | 1976 |
 | Cambridge City Historic District | 6.8 miles | 1991 |
 | Huddleston House Tavern, The | 6.9 miles | 1975 |
 | Witt-Champe-Myers House | 7.2 miles | 1995 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14001040 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Wayne County | All 40 listed properties in this county. |
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