Photograph of Lemmon Presbyterian Church — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lemmon's Church and Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Lemmon's Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery located near Portersville in Boone Township, Dubois County, Indiana. The church was built in 1860, and is a one-story, rectangular frame building with Greek Revival style design elements.”
Wikipedia article Lemmon's Presbyterian Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Dubois County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Portersville Rd. E of jct. with Co. Rd. 750W, Portersville, 47564
When was it listed? June 1992
Category. building
Township. Boone township
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 92000674 - 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.

The ground it stands on

1,635 words

The chapter on Boone Township in History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names Portersville. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

Into this region, about 1801, came the McDonald family of Scotland, who settled on a tract of land about two miles south of what is now Portersville. It may seem strange to-day, but the truth remains, Dubois county was first settled by a hardy Scotchman. At that time, the Indians were still troublesome, and the pioneers carried their lives in their hands, being in constant danger from predatory bands. The McDonald family determined to remain, however, and near their lonely cabin they erected a fort, to which they could go at the first intimation of danger. For many years this fort was a place of safety not only for the settlers in the vicinity, but for travelers between Vincennes and the settlements at the Falls of the Ohio. In local history, this fort is known as Ft. McDonald. Near it lies the Sherritt graveyard. This graveyard is on the only tract of land in Dubois county ever owned by Captain Dubois, after whom the county was named.

Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.

Many of the early settlers, especially those from the Carolinas, brought cotton seed with them, and raised cotton. A cotton gin was in operation for some time at Portersville. Cotton did not prove productive, and its cultivation was soon abandoned.

Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.

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 Boone Township - 1,635 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Storms near this property

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portersville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Portersville	$100,000	Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off two barns and destroyed a tool shed in the Portersville Road area. Trees and power lines were also downed.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Portersville	$10,000	Trained spotters reported widespread power outages in Ireland.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Portersville	-	A tree was blocking the road near 5220 Portersville Road.
June 2009	Hail	Portersville	-	no account filed
February 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Portersville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubois 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Shiloh Meeting House and Cemetery	7.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000674 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Dubois County	All 19 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.
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.