Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
“Hedrick House is historic home located at Middletown, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1899, and is a Queen Anne style frame dwelling.”
Wikipedia article John W. Hedrick House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Henry County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Fall Creek Township in History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 names Middletown. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
The township is drained by the stream from which it derives its name and the tributaries thereof. The surface is undulating though but little broken. The soil is of good quality and the farms and improvements as good as the average in the county. A large part of the present inhabitants are either Virginians or descendants of natives of that State. Fall Creek Township is situated in the northwestern part of the county and is crossed from southeast to northwest by the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg Railroad. It contains the thriving town of Middletown and the villages of Meehan icsburg and Honey Creek.
Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.
Township elections were at first held at the house of Abraham Thomas, who was the first Justice in the township. In 1832 the voting place was changed to Middletown. At a township election held in August, 1830, thirty votes were polled, of which three were Whig tickets. The only person still a voter in the township who voted at the above-mentioned election is Asa Warnick.
Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., 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 Fall Creek Township - 14,386 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of John W. Hedrick House: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chesterfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middletown, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Lightning | Middletown | 2 hurt | Police say two 11-year-old boys hurt by a lightning strike in central Indiana were attending a family reunion when the storm rolled in. Officials say one child of Cambridge, Md., was in critical but stable condition at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, while the other of Indianapolis was hospitalized in fair condition. The Henry County Sheriff's Department says the boys were shocked on Saturday near Middletown's Miller Cemetery. The Star Press of Muncie reports that emergency workers performed CPR on one of the boys at the scene and that he began breathing on his own again after he was taken to the Indianapolis hospital. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Middletown | $5,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $25,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down barn in Blountsville and tree in Middletown. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Middletown | $20,000 | NWS Indianapolis found tornado damage 2 miles south of Middletown. The EF-1 rated tornado, with max wind speeds of 110 mph, brought down numerous branches and large tree trunks were snapped and lying in all directions. There was also a second hand report of someone who says they saw the tornado. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $7,000 | Several 3-foot trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Middletown | $2,000 | Widespread flash flooding occurred across Henry county, flooding many roads. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | $500 | Two foot diameter tree blown down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | Trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | 2 trees blown down between Middletown and HoneyCreek. A farm wagon was also blown around. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Middletown | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Middletown Commercial Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2010 |
 | Henry F. Whitelock House and Farm | 6.5 miles | 1983 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84000491 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Henry County | All 13 listed properties in this county. |
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