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Photograph of Hagerstown I.O.O.F. Hall
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Hagerstown I.O.O.F. Hall

Built in http (Italianate architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Hall is a historic Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall located at Hagerstown, Indiana. It was built between 1880 and 1883, and is a three-story, five bay by seven bay, Italianate style brick commercial building.”

Wikipedia article Hagerstown I.O.O.F. Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in http, Italianate architecture.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main and Perry Sts., Hagerstown, 47346
  • When was it listed? January 1978
  • Category. building
  • Township. Jefferson township
  • When was it built? http
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78000041 - 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.

The ground it stands on

5,660 words

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.

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 Hagerstown I.O.O.F. Hall: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
House Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

39 since 1993

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$10,000A sign was blown off a hardware store, and a few trees were downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$8,000Numerous trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county.
June 2008HailHagerstown$8,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$6,000Trees were downed, at least on a car.
May 2006HailHagerstown$6,000no account filed
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000A 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 2000Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000Trees were knocked down across Jerry Myers Road.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000Trees and power lines were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000Trees were knocked down by a 70 mph wind gust.
April 1993Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000Utility poles were downed.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$5,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Multiple trees were downed in Hagerstown.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000A tree was uprooted and damage occurred to an exterior porch addition.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Large trees and power lines were reported down throughout the county.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Power lines were knocked down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Large tree limbs and power poles were downed.
October 2006Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Trees were knocked down.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Two trees and a large limb were downed across the central portion of the county.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Several trees were downed.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Roof was peeled off of a barn
June 1999Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced winds that knocked down several trees.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000Trees downed.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$3,000no account filed
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$2,000A few power lines were downed.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$2,000A tree was downed onto a power line.
February 2006Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$2,000Two trees were downed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000A tree was downed on State Route 1.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000A large tree was downed on Washington Street.
June 2018LightningHagerstown$1,000A tree was hit and knocked down by a lightning strike.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000A tree was knocked down near the intersection of Hoover Rd. and Lacy Rd.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000One tree was knocked down along W.E. Oler Road and Lacy Road.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000A large limb was reported down northwest of Hagerstown due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$1,000A tree was reported down on a road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHagerstown$250Several large tree limbs were downed on Olive Branch Road.
May 2011HailHagerstown-no account filed
August 2009HailHagerstown-no account filed
April 2006HailHagerstown-no account filed
April 1998HailHagerstown-no account filed
May 1998HailHagerstown-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
John & Caroline Stonebraker House0.1 miles2014
Conklin-Montgomery House6.8 miles1975
Lackey-Overbeck House6.9 miles1976
Cambridge City Historic District6.9 miles1991
Huddleston House Tavern, The7.0 miles1975
Witt-Champe-Myers House7.3 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000041 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 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.