McJohnston Chapel and Cemetery

Built in 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“McJohnston Chapel and Cemetery is a historic chapel and cemetery located in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. It was built in 1880, and is a small Gothic Revival style, rectangular red brick building.”
Wikipedia article McJohnston Chapel and Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 96 National Register listings published here for Vanderburgh County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1880.

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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Kansas Rd. and Erskine Lane, McCutchanville, 47725
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Township. Center township
When was it built? 1880
National Register reference number. 79000051 - 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

16,414 words

This property stands in Center Township. History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, from Earliest Times to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Etc, published 1889 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

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 Center Township - 16,414 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

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
Hooker-Ensle-Pierce House	2.0 miles	1977
Charles Sweeton House	2.2 miles	2005
Koester/Patburg House	5.0 miles	1983
Garvin Park	5.3 miles	1980
Oak Hill Cemetery	5.3 miles	2004
Hose House No. 12	5.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000051 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Vanderburgh County	All 96 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.