Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number.04000060- 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.
Then and now
1909 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
The following is a list of the holders of real estate in Olive Township in 1826, taken from the Morgan County tax duplicate for that year: Theodocius Armstrong, Samuel Allen, John Allen, James Archibald, William Eoon, Thomas Boyd's heirs, William Bovd, William Bell, Israel Blake,Benjamin Blake, Simeon l)Iake, Robert Caldwell, John Caldwell, Isaiic Cunningham, Sherebiah Clark, Aurelius Clark, Joseph L. Clark, Isaac Devore, Levi Davis, Joseph Davis, Charles Davis, William Free, Matthew Grimes' heirs, Jelferscm Glidden, DennisGibbs, John Glidden's heirs, William Glidden, Alexander Greenlee, Isaac Hill, Ejisha^ Harris' heii*s, David Ilutchins, Stephen Ilutchins' heirs, Joseph Hutchins, Jr., Ilollis Ilutchins, Daniel Ilutchins, David Ilussey, James
Joseph Caldwell, son of Kobert, now living in the village of Caldwell, was born on Duck Creek, m Washington County, near where Cay wood now is, in 1708, and has spent his long life in this valley. He is now the oklest resident of Olive Township. He has a number of relics of th(ยป olden time, among which is a carpenter's vise which his father obtained when a wagoner in Pennsylvania during the time of the Revolutionary War. JMr. C^aldwell stopped at a tavern for the night, and during the night the Hessian troops were passing continually. In tire morning when he arose he saw a cou])le of Hessians sitting u{)on a log, eating their breakfast. Mr. Caldwell and two other men went toward them, but the Hessians immediately ran, in their haste leaving behind the vise, which he secured, and which has since been kept in the family.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office
between 2012 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
9
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 85 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office between 1884 and 1974: 50 Animalia, 31 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Adams, W., Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Noble County Jail and Sheriff's Office: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Caldwell, the town this property stands in, in 39 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 12 flash flood, 6 hail, 6 flood.
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.
Between 3 and 4 pm EST, a total of 3 inches of rain was reported 4 miles south of Caldwell. The strong thunderstorm also dropped pea size hail. Other thunderstorms in the county also caused significant street flooding. Street flooding was first reported in Caldwell. Numerous small streams were reported out of their banks. The intersection of SR 260 and SR 724 near Carlisle was flooded. CR 12 and SR 821 near Ava was flooded. A 1-2 mile stretch of SR 513 between Summersfield and Batesville was flooded. SR 215 was closed near Belle Valley.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Areas of Significance A. Social History XA Property is associated with events that have made C. Architecture a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. X C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction. D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) B removed from its original location. - D a cemetery.
- E a reconstructed building, object or structure. - F a commemorative property. G less than 50years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years. ARCHITECT / J.W. Yost CONTRACTOR / Mill & Summers (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 04000060, 49 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
5 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.