MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Hopley, John, History of Crawford County, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Baskin & Battey, Chicago, 1881. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PHOPERTY W 82 MAR 2 1 1974 FORM PREPARED BY Pauline Reindle, Director 440 North Street 2.
STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation GPO 931-894 039 Degrees Seconds Local Name LATITUDE COUNTY LONGITUDE ORGANIZATION CORNER STATE ATTEST: DATE REGISTER CODE NATIONAL Crestline Shunk Museum Degrees Minutes Seconds National Register.
LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES STREET AND NUMBER: NAME AND TITLE: level of significance of this nomination is: less than l acre CITY OR TOWN: OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES N 40 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: July 1973 ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES Keeper of Th Crestline Minutes Title Ohio 3. 21.74,450 PHOTOS - CONTROL REVIEW INT: 1538-73 PROPERTY Entered KEEPER Re-submit MAPS Send-back WORKING NUMBER TECH REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register entry 1874 3.27. National Register Write-up Mk 4, (4){ ARCHEOLOGIST REVIEW UNIT CHIEF NAME OF PROPERTY 1. Name. . 5. Location 3. Classification. 6. Representation in Existing Surveys. - _12. Certification. - Photographic Coverage. of our professional review.
necessarily insure that the nomination will then satisfy the National Register Thank you for your attention to the above items checked. Geographical Data. Description. Bibliography. Lonritude and Latitude Coordinates. preferably an original usos.which allows us to check latitude-longitude. criteria in full. office for clarification of the information indicated below. Form Prepared By. Other. . Acreage. Location of Legal Description. Statement gf Significance. Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY NAME AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION 121 W. Bucyrus Street NEGATIVE FILED AT: DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. INT: 154-72 039 033 Crawford Crestline COUNTY DATE Ohio REGISTE PHOTO REFERENCE STATE CODE IDENTIFICATION South facade.
Crestline City Hall COMMON: ENTRY NUMBER PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM July 1973 (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) (7/72) CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: STREET AND NUMBER: MAY 1974 NATIONAL RECEIVED THOMAN ST.E UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FORM 10-301 A 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) 2. LOCATION 3. PHOTO REFERENCE July 2, 1973 4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. MAR 2 1 1974- GPO 932-009 DATE TOWN Crawford Crestline REGISTE COUNTY COMMON STATE PHOTO CREDIT View looking at south and west facades. PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER Crestline City Hall NATIONAL NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Ohio PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 121 W.
Bucyrus Street NEGATIVE FILED AT STREET AND NUMBER (6/72) MAY 8 #2of2pho+os UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1. NAME AND/OR HISTORIC NUMERIC CODE (Assigned by NPS) MAY - LOCATION 3. MAP REFERENCE 1: 24000 REQUIREMENTS: PROPERTY BOUNDARIES, WHERE REQUIRED, AND NORTH ARROW: MAR 2 1 1974 GPO 932.010 1960 Crawford Crestline TOWN STATE COUNTY NATIONAL DATE SCALE COMMON SOURCE REGISTER Ohio Crestline City Hall RECEIVED STREET AND NUMBER Form 10-301 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM 121 W. Bucyrus Street (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with map) 1874 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CRESTLINE QUADRANGLE MAY 8 Mr- Daniel &. Porter, Director Hon. Robert Taft, Jr. MMott / row Location Name 5/16/74 Region Crawford County STATEOHIO ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Crestline Regional Director, Midwest Hon. Howard M.
Metzenbaum Interstate 7l at 17th Ave. The Ohio Historical Society Hon. John M. Ashbrook Crestline City Hall Columbus, Ohio 43211 1974 MAY 14 1974 Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Ashbrooks: Mr. Daniel R. Porter Columbus, Ohio 43211 ) w/e of inc. FNP: KHCole: crb: 5-13-74 Director Enclosure House of Representatives Regional Director-Midwest) H34-PR The Ohio Historical Society We appreciate your interest in historic preservation. D-Reading File Honorable John M. Ashbrook Sincerely yours, nominated by the Ohio State Historic Preservation Officer and the Crestline Hall to the National Register of Historic Places. We are pleased to advise you that the Crestline Hall was Assooiate a leaflet which describes the National Register program.
Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Ernest Allen Connally entered in the National Register on May 8,l974.Enclosed is (BASIC RETAINED IN Thank you for your recent letter concerning the nomination of KHCole JOHN M. ASHBROOK - 17TH DISTRICT MAY 7 1974 EDUCATION AND LABOR 206 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING Congress of the United States House of Representatibes April 30, 1974 Dr. William J. Murtagh 1100 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Dr. Murtagh: I have recently received the enclosed letter from the Crestline Historical Society of Crawford County, Ohio, relative to the application the Society has filed to place the that this application is now in washington and, as you will note in the letter from the Society, there is some urgency in having this application approved.
It would be appreciated if you could expedite the handling of this application and advise me of its disposi- Thanks in advance for your attention and I will look Representative to Congress National Register Sincerely, INTERNAL SECURITY OHIO @lashington, 20515 Crestline City Hall on the National Register. I understand tion. COMMITTEES: MAY forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience. APR 22 1974 Organized November 17, 1947 April 14, 1974 1ble since the bull-dozing of the entire dowatown will be Crestline, Ohio 44827 Sincerely, The Crestline Historical Society has petition- unity as an annex to the present Museum and also as a Comm- Director Shunk Museum ed to save the City Hall in Crestline from being demolished unity Center for the Golden Age people. could give in this matter.
Pauline Reindl Would surely appreciate any help that you Crestline Shunk Museum City Hall placed on the National Register as soon as poss- U.S. Rep. John Ashbrook ces at Washington, D.C.Would it be possible for you to through the State:of Ohio agencies and is now in the offi- House office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 440 Month St. this building destroyed, since iit still could serve the comm- Creatline,hin CRESTLINE, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO VOLUME ONE CRESTLINE, OHIO Number One E. G. Hesser, Editor Sept., 1949 2 1 1974 Town Hall, Crestline, Built 1889 Zepp, Director of the Ohio State Museum, and with members of the Crestline Historical Society, November 17, 1947.
to the history of Crestline and Crawford County, to promote the teaching of local history, to further the establishment of a museum to house articles and records, to perpetuate and mark sites of his- (the first year it was called Livingston) and with the approaching century mark and with a centennial celebration in mind it was felt outstanding speakers as well as a pilgrimage to historic shrines are ible for membership. Dues $1.00 per year. The Crestline Historical Society Bulletin EGISTER ATIONAL A group of Crestline citizens, after consultation with Mr. Erwin C.
The objectives are to preserve objects and documents relating Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, organized the Location of Crestline Museum The Crestline Historical Society held during the year.All persons interested in Crestline are elig- that such a society would be helpful in accumulating and preserv- ing the history and traditions of our town. Its first project was the sible publication of such research.Crestline was founded in i851 THE CRAFTS ROOM Showing Early Utensils Used by the Pioneers aims of the society is to preserve objects and documents relating to the history of Crestline and Crawford County. Mayor Albert Son- second floor of the Town Hall for museum purposes and here are being assembled objects and documents of historical interest. The four rooms are known as the Crawford-Indian Room, the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Room, the Founders Room and the Crafts Room.
The many hundreds of adults and all of our school children have visited Over 2000 people have visited the Museum. Over 1000 items have been given or loaned. their teachers have visited the Museum. history. STATISTICS Museum is open, free, Thursday afternoon and evening. The Crestline Museum All grade school children from Crestline and Leesville with erous in sending items and heirlooms for the Museum collection. Hundreds of objects have been given or loaned to the Museum and it.
It is, in a very objective way, teaching the community our local ner has permitted the Historical Society to use four rooms on the citizens of Crestline as well as former residents have been very gen- The Crestline Museum was opened to the public on March 3,1949, under the auspices of the Crestline Historical Society.One of the THE CRAWFORD-INDIAN ROOM Showing Indian Relics and Portrait of Colonel William Crawford The B. J. Pry Collection of Indian Relics loaned by E. J. Pry is attracting the continued interest and atten- stone implements used by the Indian tribes in and about the site of rowheads, powder stones, corn grinders, hammers, skinners, shuttles plements used in this area by the redmen before the coming of the wheels, wool wheels, lamps, candle moulds and candle sticks.
COLONEL WILLIAM CRAWFORD whose honor Crawford County is named, was born in Virginia of followed this work together with farming until he was about twen- 1732-1782 Mr.Pry has spent years in making this collection and the Mu- THE CRESTLINE MUSEUM Scotch-Irish descent in 1732.He and George Washington born in the as an assortment of tomahawks. seum is fortunate to be able to show to the public the type of im- utensils used by the pioneers.
Among the many items are spinning for weaving and ceremonial stones.There are peace pipes as well ty-three years old.In 1755 he gave up this work and began an out- Colonel William Crawford, Revolutionary War patriot and in tion of boys and girls as well as adults.It is a fine collection of the same state and in the same year were personal friends.As a young man in companionship with Washington he learned to survey and white pioneers.Mr.Pry aiso has on display in the Crafts Room Crawford, engaged under McIntosh in the Detroit expedition, aided Clark's expedition, then retired from active military service by re- He and his little army of 480 frontiersmen passed through the site of Crestline in 1782 on their way to the present site of Upper present site of Leesville, west of Crestline in Crawford County, and at their hands met a terrible death by torture and burning at the stake, June 11, 1782.
it, and made it the subject of a special communication to Congress. sorrow and concern that I have learned the melancholy tidings of much care and prudence; brave, experienced, and active. The man- ner of his death was shocking to me, and I have this day communi- The Crestline Kiwanis Club erected a monument on the ap- honor with appropriate ceremony. President - E. G. Hesser Vice Pres. - J. L. Morrow Secretary-Anna M. Crowe Treasurer-J. B. McCarter Board of Directors George H. Beck James F. McMahon Dr. C. E. Cook A. A. Remy C. E. Dewald C. A. Stephan Mrs. S. F. Trimble F. P. Hayes L. F. Waldbauer T. D.
Hoffman cated to the honorable, the Congress, such papers as I have regard- Robert Lesseuer Officers proximate site of his capture and on June 8, 1928 dedicated it to his Moulton DeWalt to join in the Sandusky Campaign against the Indians we find him Albert Sonner The fate of Crawford caused consternation throughout the THE CRESTLINE MUSEUM The Crestline Historical Society John Berger, Jr. B. J. Pry Mrs. F. J. Gosser Mrs. Harry White same year, he was appointed Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Virginia Battalions by Congress. Colonel Crawford served under Washington upon the seaboard, repaired to Fort Pitt, built Crestline. (The British soldiers from Detroit were fighting with the Indians) Colonel Crawford was captured by the Indians near the pedition, and am particularly affected with the disastrous death of Sandusky where he was defeated.
last shots at the Indians and British soldiers on the present site of young nation. standing military career.January 12,1776,he was made lieutenant- President Washington further says:"I lament the failure of the ex- again in warfare,and it was in this last campaign that he lost his
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