Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
“Williams House, also known as "Old Home", is a historic home located at Howe, Indiana. It was built between 1838 and 1843, and is a Western Reserve style frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Samuel P. Williams House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for LaGrange County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Lima Township. Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 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 Lima Township - 448 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Samuel P. Williams House in 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | TRI-TOWNSHIP FD 000285 - 2019 |
| 8 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | STURGIS CITY FD 190068 - 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Badlam Howe Mansion | 0.3 miles | 1995 |
 | St. James Memorial Chapel | 0.4 miles | 2001 |
 | Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District | 2.1 miles | 1995 |
 | La Grange County Courthouse | 5.4 miles | 1980 |
| Bloomfield Township Graded School | 6.2 miles | 2022 | |
 | Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store) | 7.6 miles | 1975 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80000043 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| LaGrange County | All 10 listed properties in this county. |
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