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Bottorff-McCulloch Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Bottorff-McCulloch Farm is a historic home and farm located in Charlestown Township, Clark County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built about 1835, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling.”

Wikipedia article Bottorff-McCulloch Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Bottorff--McCulloch Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 6702 Bethany Rd., Charlestown, 47111
  • When was it listed? June 1995
  • Category. building
  • Township. Charlestown township
  • National Register reference number. 95000699 - 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

3,790 words

The chapter on Charlestown Township in Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana, published 1909 names Charlestown. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The town of Charlestown has a very prosperous and influential congregation of i\Iethodists. Of the later history of the Charlestown church but little can be learned, but its earlier history is that of the grant, as the earliest ser\'ices held in this locality were held near Charlestown. The church here is one of the three full stations in Clark county, Wall Street in Jeft'ersonville, and Port Fulton being the other two. The church building at Charlestown is a substantial brick structure. It was dedicated in 1854 by Bishop Ames. There is also a good parsonage, offering a comfortable and convenient home for the pastor. It is valued at three thousand dollars. The congregation numbers about three hundred souls.

Passage source: Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana, published 1909.

The New Washington Circuit at present consists of six chapels: New Washington, Mount Zion, New Hope, Bethlehem, Saiem and Shiloh. Salem Chapel is about three miles southeast of Charlestown and was originally Gazaways, one of the first three societies organized in the county by Benjamin Lakin. The congregation now numbers sixty. The New Washington church at New Washington is not very strong, having only thirty-seven members reported at the last conference. Mount Zion was reported as having ninety members; New Hope, twenty; Bethlehem, seventy, and Shiloh, fifty.

Passage source: Baird's History of Clark County, Indiana, published 1909.

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 Charlestown Township - 3,790 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Bottorff-McCulloch Farm: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Charlestown QuarryStoneProducer
Harmony LandingSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hel Del DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jeffersonville PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sellersburg Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Speed MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Speed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Utica QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlestown, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 2 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015FloodCharlestown1 killed, $20,000The Clark County emergency manager along with several media outlets reported the drowning of a 67 year old male after he reportedly drove through a flooded roadway. Several inches of rain had fallen during the previous night, flooding a portion of Tunnel Mill Road. His vehicle was found several hours later and a search team discovered his body later that evening.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindCharlestown$70,000Windows were blown out of a house. A carport was blown down. Thunderstorm winds picked up and moved a trailer. Two barns were destroyed.
April 2015Flash FloodCharlestown$40,000The public reported numerous flooded cars due to excessive heavy rainfall. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain fell across the county on top of very saturated ground.
May 2017HailCharlestown$25,000Hail ranged in size from nickels to half dollar in diameter.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindCharlestown$20,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a barn and downed trees along highway 160 near Jack Teeple Road.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCharlestown$15,000The public reported vinyl siding blown off a building due to severe thunderstorm winds.
February 2025FloodCharlestown-Several flooded roads were reported in the Charlestown area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Multiple trees and power lines were downed in the area of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Street and Market Street in Charlestown.
July 2025Flash FloodCharlestown-Water was over the roadway at the intersection of State Road 62 and Market Street in Charlestown. Two vehicles became stuck in the water.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-There was roof damage, a power line down, and trees down in Clark County.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-A large tree fell on Main Street between Monroe and Jefferson.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Trees down near Charlestown.
January 2023HailCharlestown-Quarter size hail reported north of Charlestown. Time estimated using a combination of observer's estimate and radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-A tree fell on a home.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-There was a downed power line hanging down over a street.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Trees and large limbs were down on State Road 403.
May 2019HailCharlestown-Broadcast media reported 1 inch hail near Charlestown, Indiana.
March 2016HailCharlestown-A trained spotter reported that nickel sized hail fell for 3 minutes and covered the ground.
May 2016HailCharlestown-A trained spotter reported hail the size of quarters.
May 2016HailCharlestown-A trained spotter reported hail 1.75 inches in diameter.
May 2016HailCharlestown-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
June 2015HailCharlestown-A report of 3/4 inch diameter hail was received by the public.
July 2015Flash FloodCharlestown-A broadcast media meteorologist reported that Highway 3 flooded in Charlestown. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain from several rounds of thunderstorms were observed.
July 2015Flash FloodCharlestown-A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report of a flooded road in Charlestown. Between 2 and 4 inches of rain fell from several rounds of severe thunderstorms.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-A HAM operator relayed a report of an 18 inch diameter tree down in a yard as well as other trees down in the area. Multiple power outages were accompanied by pea sized hail. Local media also reported that at this same time, a roof was blown off of a laundromat on Park Street. A storm survey was conducted and one resident reported a small funnel cloud that didn't touch the ground. Several trees were snapped or blown down west of Charleston. The most concentrated surveyed damage lay along Locust Street and along Highway 403 near the O'Reilly auto parts store. A large Sycamore trees fell on a car parked on Water Street. The survey estimated straight line winds between 60 and 65 mph.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-A spotter measured a gust of 60 mph within a squall line that followed two earlier supercells that moved to the north of Charlestown.
September 2009Heavy RainCharlestown-Total rainfall between 6 am and 11 pm EST was 6.72 inches, with 5.2 inches falling after 7 pm EST.
September 2009Flash FloodCharlestown-A water rescue was performed in Charlestown.
August 2009HailCharlestown-Quarter to golf ball size hail fell.
August 2009Flash FloodCharlestown-High Street was closed due to flash flooding.
November 2005Flash FloodCharlestown-High Jackson Road was covered by several feet of water.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Numerous trees were downed. The spotter estimated a wind gust of 70 mph.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Trees and power lines were downed. Pea size hail was also reported.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-Trees down
August 2022HailCharlestown-no account filed
April 2011HailCharlestown-no account filed
April 2006HailCharlestown-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-no account filed
May 2004HailCharlestown-no account filed
May 2003HailCharlestown-no account filed
May 2003HailCharlestown-no account filed
May 2003HailCharlestown-no account filed
November 2002HailCharlestown-no account filed
June 2002HailCharlestown-no account filed
May 2001HailCharlestown-no account filed
April 2000HailCharlestown-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCharlestown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Benjamin Ferguson House2.3 miles1983
Pleasant Ridge Historic District2.4 miles2018
Thomas Downs House2.5 miles1984
Watson House2.5 miles1983

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000699 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.