Lusk Home and Mill Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Lusk Home and Mill Site was the first development in present Turkey Run State Park, Indiana's second oldest state park.”
Wikipedia article Lusk Home and Mill Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Parke County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 sitess, 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off IN 47 in Turkey Run State Park, Marshall, 47859
When was it listed? October 1974
Category. site
Township. Sugar Creek township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 74000017 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Storms near this property

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshall, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 14 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$8,000	Trees were down across roads around a neighborhood in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The power was out as well.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$6,000	Several trees were downed on roads near Marshall due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$2,000	Power lines and tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2015	Flood	Marshall	$1,500	Water was flowing over roadways in Marshall due to heavy rainfall of 1.40 inches in 40 minutes.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	$1,000	A tree was blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Wind gust was measured by a cooperative observer.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Eight to ten inch tree limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. Trash dumpsters were also overturned.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	Three foot tree limbs were off trees due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	A wind gust of 71 mph was measured at Marshall, and trees were downed at Rosedale.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed
February 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshall	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Marshall	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parke 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
Narrows Bridge	under 500 feet	1978
Turkey Run State Park	1.0 miles	2019
Richard Lieber Log Cabin	1.2 miles	2001
Cox Ford Bridge	2.1 miles	1978
Beeson Bridge	2.3 miles	1978
Wilkins Mill Bridge	2.6 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000017 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Parke County	All 47 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.
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.