Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“Dutch Ridge Historic District is a national historic district located in Perry Township, Allen County, Indiana. The district encompasses two contributing buildings and one contributing site in Perry Township.”
Wikipedia article Dutch Ridge Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 81 National Register listings published here for Allen County · listed in 1995 · category: District.
National Register reference number.95001110- 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
6,446 words
The chapter on Perry Township in History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880 names Huntertown. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Benjamin and Amasiah Parker came from Jefferson County, N. \ ., in the spring of 1834, and were prominent movers in many of the public improvements subsequently inaugurated in the township. In the same season, Ephraim H. Dunten, Jr., located near the present site of Huntertown, where he erected a building in which he kept the first tavern in the township. Subsequently, he removed to Fort Wayne, where he was engaged in business for a short time. Returning to Perry Township, he made it his home until 1854. when he fell a victim to cholera, and died.
William T. Hunter came in 1837, and purchased the tract of land upon which the^illage of Huntertown is now located. lie has done much toward the improvement of the township, and is universally respected by his neighbors. He now resides at Huntertown.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Dutch Ridge Historic District: 5 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant.
6 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Huntertown, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Numerous trees and power lines down within a 5 by 6 block area on the western side of Huntertown. Several buildings damaged...including two businesses and one home which were destroyed. An additional 21 homes sustained minor to moderate damage. State of emergency declared.
Local fire officials reported lightning struck a house on the 1200 block of Harvest Bay Drive. Damage was caused to the attic of the house as well as the loss of the garage. No injuries were reported. Damage is estimated at $40,000.
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
3 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.
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.
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