BlockFrom the record
One of 157 National Register listings published here for Montgomery County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Grafton-Rockwood Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.
The listing
- Address. Parts of Grafton, Homewood, Rockwood Ave, Oaks Ave, Old Orchard Ave., Dayton
- When was it listed? March 2010
- Category. district
- National Register reference number. 10000084 - 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
1904 to 1996The ground this property stands on, surveyed 92 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Grafton-Rockwood Historic District: 11 past producers, 5 producers, 2 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Road Limestone Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Olive Road Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Broadway Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| East River Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jackson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jackson Sand Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Pit No 5 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Moraine Materials Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Newspapers printed here
8 papers8 papers 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.
| Newspaper | Published |
|---|---|
| The Daily Bulletin | 1942 to 1946 |
| The Dayton Forum | 1913 to 1949 |
| Dayton Union News | 1940 to 1944 |
| Dayton Daily Empire | 1850 to 1865 |
| The Daily Express | 1950 to 1955 |
| The Ohio Daily-Express | 1946 to 1950 |
| The Daily Empire | 1865 to 1867 |
| The Dayton Citizen | 1950 to 19?? |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1904 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:62500
- 1906 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Dayton North quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Dayton North quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Dayton North quadrangle1:24000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squirrel-Forrest Historic District | 0.2 miles | 2010 | |
| Julienne Girls Catholic High School | 0.2 miles | 2009 | |
 | Dayton Fire Station No. 14 | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
 | Central Avenue Historic District | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | Steele's Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2023 |
| Traxler Mansion | 0.5 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000084 in Record Group 79. |
| Montgomery County | All 157 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.