Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
“Roads Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Atlanta, Indiana. It was built in 1893, and is a two-story, rectangular, Queen Anne style frame building.”
Wikipedia article Roads Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The chapter on Jackson Township in History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 names Atlanta. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
In 1836 Michael Shiel came to the county and settled near the present site of Atlanta. Allen Sumner and George Tucker settled near the Shiel cabin on the opposite side of the line later followed by the Lake Erie & Western railway. Later comers included James Thompson, Alexander Smith, John Ehrman, Frederick Smelce and Caleb Sparger. Sparger's land joined Shiel's on the west. Later both Sparger and Shiel laid out a town, calling them, respectively, Spargerville and Shielville, which towns later were merged into one called Buena Vista, and which at present is called Atlanta. Other settlers included the following: Phillip Roads, Peter Miller, Daniel Smith, Daniel and William Haskett, John Harrington, John and Jacob Crull, George Hives and Jacob Whistler.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915.
Jackson township is unique in one respect, as it has within its limits more towns and settlements than any other township in Hamilton county. Cicero, Arcadia and Atlanta are about equal distance apart, along the eastern part of the township, with Deming, a village in the southwestern part, and the Roberts settlement slightly northwest of the center of the township.
Passage source: History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915.
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 Jackson Township - 6,516 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Roads Hotel: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muncie Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Tipton Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlanta, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Atlanta | $150,000 | An F0 tornado damaged a barn and some farm equipment as it briefly touched down near Atlanta. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Atlanta | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds produced a 2-mile path of downed trees and tree limbs, including a barn damaged near Atlanta, before a tree was snapped in Cicero. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Atlanta | $40,000 | At 1605EST, this EF-1 tornado touched down a half mile south-southwest of Atlanta. The tornado tracked through the town of Atlanta, producing damage to structures in town. At 1607EST, the tornado path crossed into south-central Tipton County and ended to the east of Cicero Creek, just north of the Hamilton-Tipton County line at 1608EST. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Atlanta | - | No property damage reported. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Atlanta | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micajah Walden House | 4.1 miles | 2019 | |
 | Roberts Chapel | 5.0 miles | 1996 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 87002187 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Hamilton County | All 31 listed properties in this county. |
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