Nomination for Camp Chase Site

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/OR HISTORIC: NUV IO 1972 - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Comments - Commercial - Other (Specify) OWNER'S NAME: 2800 South 20th Street LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: DATE OF SURVEY: 1967 - Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 042 Washington LOCATION Both Franklin Religious STATE Military OWNERSHIP Government NATIONAL CLASSIFICATION Site District Private Entertainment Restricted CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE NAME Pennsylvania CODE Columbus Agricultural Unoccupied DATE STATUS Structure REGISTER Yes: Museum Educational Scientific Being Considered Philadelphia Park Public Congressional District 15 Building Private Residence COMMON: Transportation Sullivant Avenue Public Acquisition: TO THE PUBLIC National Archives Industrial REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS Ohio Historical Society STREET AND NUMBER: National Cemetery Supervising Office/ U.S.

Government Object Ohio Historic Landmarks Survey Phase I Ohio 1982 Velma Avenue In Process NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ENTRY NUMBER RECEIVED (Check One) OWNER OF PROPERTY District of Columbia 011 TITLE OF SURVEY: CITY OR TOWN: 049 APR DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Ruins - Unexposed - Unaltered K Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

When the first prisoners of war arrived, a stockade was built critical housing shortage caused by incoming prisoners. Three acres of the original camp grounds. A stone wall, built in 1921, inscription-- AMERICANS. Marble headstones, granted by an Act NOV 1O 1972 Moved REGISTER NATIONAL three single-story frame buildings with partitioned rooms and Narrow dirt roads separated each parallel line. on two sides surrounded the stockade, named Prison No.1. land contiguous to the first stockade. barracks were needed.Prison No.3,a three-acre unit, was on the southeast corner of the camp grounds. This stockade apart, while series of clusters formed four parallel lines.

a nucleus.Each hut was made of planks and light frames encloses the graves of 2,199 Confederate soldiers who died while Present: None of the original structures on the Camp Chase site barracks with old lumber from the previously demolished site. flowing barracks at Camp Jackson on the north side of Columbus. As more prisoners of war filled the camp grounds, additional with space for 198 prisoners.Volunteer prison labor built the built in March, 1862.Huts arranged in a cluster of six formed entrance. Above the arch rests a bronze statue of a Confederate stands directly behind the memorial arch along the north wall.

More buildings were added in November,1861,to relieve the soldier facing south, and on the keystone of the arch is the (Check One) War.On the camp site 16o houses were built to replace the over- 100'by 15' barracks, designated as Prison No.2, were added on In the summer of 1864,the huts of Prison No.3 were demolished A cemetery, established in 1863,now occupies less than two rested on a t-acre plot, and accommodated 450 prisoners in the third measured 70'by 20'.A plank wall 12'high with towers to make way for seventeen new barracks, each 1oo' by 22' long, XI Excellent prisoners of war.

A memorial arch of granite blocks, unveiled in leased to the U.s.Government at the beginning of the Civil Original: The flat, farming land which became Camp Chase was 1902,spans a large boulder just 75' inside the Suliivant Avenue measuring 20'by 14'.The huts in each cluster were spaced 2' Fair RECEIVED Good PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! | 17th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 4 Political - Prehistoric - Engineering Landscape STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

nela political prisoners-- judges, legislators, and mayors immediate repatriation of Confederate soldiers. When both sides swelled with new prisoners. Military prisoners quickly smallpox, typhoid fever, and pneumonia. Others who received from the cold Ohio winter of 1865. In all, 2,260 soldiers 1861-1865 Conservation Religion/Phi Military closed. Commerce Communications Transportation Aboriginal losophy SIGNIFICANCE Invention Literature Architecture Music Theater Science itarian first prisoners of war arrived from western Virginia. Education Civil War. Agriculture Social/Human alleged mistreatment at prisoner of war camps in the South.

of Ohio, Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln, eventually took a heavy toll among prisoners.Despite newly- meager clothing provisions suffered severe cases of exposure enlisted men, and political prisoners until the end of the Ohio, Camp Chase housed only non-commissioned officers, Army, Camp Chase was converted to a military prison as the constructed barracks in 1864 which raised the prison's military prison for Confederate officers at Johnson's Island, Crowded and unhealthy living conditions at Camp Chase Many prisoners suffered from malnutrition, and died from outnumbered political prisoners by heavy margins.By war's end, Industry of war in Ohio military prisons.

Confederacy.In early 1862,Camp Chase served briefly as a from Kentucky and Virginia accused of loyalty to the designated as a training camp.for new recruits in the Union capacity to 8,ooo men,,the prison soon operated over capacity. formally ended this agreement on July 13,1863,Camp Chase In the early months of the Civil Chase primarily Camp Chase, according to an exchange agreement reached by Sculpture died at Camp Chase by July the camp officially North and South on July 22,1862,was to be a way station for E Urban Planning in honor of Salmon Portland Chase(1808-1873), former Governor and later Chief Justice of the U.S.Supreme Court.Initially prison for Confederate officers.But with the opening ofa Other (Specify) Camp Chase held 26,000 of all 36,000 Confederate prisoners Army, washington, D.C. (pamphlet) Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 0.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES 56 : 37 Ohio State NAME AND TITL'E: William H. Carlile July 10,1972 2. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICAIION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set 039 1906 Degrees LONGITUDE Name Local LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Columbus Title DATE COUNTY ATTEST: CODE CORNER National Degrees Minutes Seconds MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES National Register.

NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES I hereby certify that this property is included in the STREET AND NUMBER: FORM PREPARED BY 10 North Drexel Avenue level of significance of this nomination is: in the National Register and certify that it has been Ohio CITY OR TOWN: Prisons in the Civil War, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 1964 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation REGISTER 0434 4423370 Ohio's Military Breen, EDITORIAL -REVIEW Federal Register entry _6 -5-2 3 ARCHITECT Maps KEEPER Photos Re-submit BRANCH CHIEF Send-back Register no.

HISTORIAN National Register write-up TECH REVIEW ARCHEOLOGIST APR 1 1 1973 n form Acknowledge ACCEPT Working number -5-73 - Accept EDITORIAL -REVIEW ARCHEOLOGIST Maps ARCHITECT KEEPER National Register write-up PROPERTY Photos Federal Register entry Send-back Re-submit BRANCH CHIEF Register no. TECH REVIEW Working number 1110.72.1683 Acknowledge ///13 / 7 2 APR 1 1 1979 HISTORIAN 6-5-73 Franklin STATE Ohio 2260 CONFEDERATE ENCLOSURE SOLDIERS NPS Number PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) FOR NPS USE ONLY Camp Chase Site NUV 10 1972 STREET AND NUM BER: CITY OR TOWN: TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

1965 039 NAME Franklin STATE Columbus COUNTY DATE REGISTER CODE COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER SCALE: Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio SOURCE: PROPERTY MAP FORM MAP REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS AND/OR HISTORIC: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) 290o Sullivant Avenue 1"/24.000" V.S.G.S. Topographical Map. Southwest Columbus Quadrangle, 7}' LOCATION HAMILTON 4423370 SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CAMP CHASE SITE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 75 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS, OHIO Akron vicinity Hen, Robert Taft, Js. ME. Daniel R. Porter Columbus, Ohio 43211 Hon. Clarence J. Brown, Jt.

NRowland: pcl 4/13/73 Director, Northeast Region Location STATE Name APR Vinton County Date Entered Springfield Columbus Also Notified Pennsylvania House ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Goodyear Airdock PHR Aahtabula County Clark County Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge Franklin County Wilkeaville vicinity Sumnit County Hon. John Y. Seiberling, Jr. Office Hon. Clarence E. Miller Director Casp Chase Site The Ohio Historical Soeiety Wiawell Road Covered Bridge Hon. Willian B. Saxbe OHIO