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Photograph of Gabriel Farnsley House
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Gabriel Farnsley House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Gabriel Farnsley House, also known as the Behrens House, is a historic home located in Franklin Township, Floyd County, Indiana. It was built about 1856, and is a two-story, five-bay, plantation-style frame dwelling.”

Wikipedia article Gabriel Farnsley House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Floyd County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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.
  • Listed as. Farnsley, Gabriel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of Bridgeport off IN 111, Bridgeport, 47117
  • When was it listed? September 1982
  • Category. building
  • Township. Franklin township
  • National Register reference number. 82000037 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gabriel Farnsley House: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Gem Silica Elizabeth PlantSilicaProducer
Neely Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Floyd 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

4 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
Beard-Kerr Farm7.3 miles2012
William Young House7.7 miles2010
Woodbine7.8 miles1994
Scribner House8.0 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000037 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Floyd CountyAll 25 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.