Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
From the record
“Davenport-Bradfield House, also known as the Bradfield House, is a historic home located at Sheridan, Indiana. It was built in 1875, and is a two-story, Italianate style brick dwelling.”
Wikipedia article Davenport-Bradfield House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.85000089- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Sheridan town. The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
The Indiana Condensed Milk Company's plant at Sheridan is among the largest of its kind in the country. It was established about the year 1900 by W. N. Wilson, succeeding the old butter works that had been there many years before this latter organization. Mr. Wilson was accidentally killed by the explosion of a sterilizing equipment.
The chapter on Sheridan Town in History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 names Sheridan. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Sheridan, the second town in size in Hamilton county, is situated in the southwestern part of Adams township, on the Monon railroad connecting with Westfield, Carmel and Indianapolis to the south and Chicago to the north. The town was laid out in i860 by Egbert Higbee on the south side of the pike road running east and west. Higbee gave the town the name of Millwood. On the north side of the road, opposite Millwood, Caswell Boxlev laid out an addition to the town. Some years later, when application was made for a postoffice at this point, it was found that there already was a Millwood in the state, so the towns on both sides of the road were united under the one name, Sheridan.
The pioneer business men of Sheridan were P. G. Pearson, 1866, harness shop; Dr. H. Moore, general merchandise. In 1866 Egbert Higbee built the first flouring mill at Sheridan, but for some reason the mill was not, operated for two years. In 1868 three men, Cyrus Jessup, Eliel Jessup and J. P. Peason, went into partnership with Mr. Higbee and under their joint management the mill was put into operation for a short time. It then changed hands and finally was purchased by J. P. Peason and operated for years under the firm style of Peason & Son. In the early years a saw mill was operated in connection with the grist mill.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning.
The reports record 11 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.
Six people were struck by lightning at at paintball facility in Sheridan. Two were treated and released at the scene, with four being transported to area hospitals for treatment. The injuries were not serious.
Ten buildings were damaged, numerous trees down, and two semi trucks blown over by thunderstorm winds. Injuries were reported but no exact number given. A barn was said to be destroyed by the thunderstorm winds, which was likely among the aforementioned damaged buildings.
Damage was spread across the northern portion of Hamilton county. Most of the damage was in a line from Sheridan to Arcadia to Omega to Aroma then out of the county to the north-northeast. Trees of different diameters were downed. About 10 structures, most of them barns, had been damaged and trees blocked several roadways. In addition two semi tractor-trailers had blown over, one at 236th Street and US 31 causing personal injury and another at 281st Street and Indiana 213, in which a tree fell on top of a semi.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a two and a half foot diameter tree just west of Sheridan on the Hamilton-Boone County line. Crops in the same vicinity were also damaged by the winds.
A storm total of 2.05 inches of rainfall was recorded. The event begin time is roughly estimated. This same observer also reported a 72 MPH wind gust on this day, as documented separately in this publication.
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.
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.
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.
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