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Photograph of John Glenn Boyhood Home
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Glenn, John, Boyhood Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.

From the record

“THE above-named gentleman ranks among the leading merchants of New Concord. In 1875 he located at the intersection of Main and Liberty streets, having purchased a half interest with the late Henry C.”

History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers (1882). Machine-read text.

one of 70 National Register listings in Muskingum County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.

Sources: the county history on the Internet Archive · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 72 Main St., New Concord, 43762
  • When was it listed? 2018-12-17
  • Category. building
  • Township. Union township
  • National Register reference number. 100003210 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

5,138 words

The chapter on Union Township in History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names New Concord. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

From 1803 to 1806, the Reasoners, Speers, Findleys, and Wilsons, from Pennsylvania, settled in the northeastern portion of the township, near the present site of New Concord. Henry Reasoner, having in the year 1804, entered the land on which the town now stands.

Passage source: History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

In the year 1804, Henry Reasoner, trom Pennsylvania, entered the southwest quarter of section one, which he sold to David Findley, in 1806, and, in 1828, Findley laid out the town of New Concord, along the line of the National Road.. .

Passage source: History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Union Township - 5,138 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

28 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Glenn, John, Boyhood Home between 2011 and 2020, burning about 31 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15863
13 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 July 2012Natural3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 April 2017Smokingunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources7926
20 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4505
2 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Muskingum County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,059 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,059 specimens collected within 10 miles of Glenn, John, Boyhood Home between 1908 and 1975: 767 Animalia, 289 Plantae, 3 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. H. Wright, Adams, W., Adams, W. (William), Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) et al. 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Catocala amatrix Hübner, 1813Catocala amatrix Hübner, 18131954Betty DaschNew Concord
Specimen of Catocala cara Guenée, 1852Catocala cara Guenée, 18521954Betty DaschNew Concord
A photograph of the species Bubo virginianus, not of this specimenBubo virginianus virginianus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1908A. H. WrightNew Concord
A photograph of the species Medicago sativa, not of this specimenMedicago sativa L.1911Coleman, J.New Concord
A photograph of the species Desmognathus fuscus, not of this specimenDesmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)1931Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Plethodon glutinosus, not of this specimenPlethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)1931Neiswender, M. D. (Mary D.)Perry Twp., Muskingum Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Cardinalis cardinalis, not of this specimenCardinalis cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Chondestes grammacus, not of this specimenChondestes grammacus grammacus (Say, 1822)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Coluber constrictor, not of this specimenColuber constrictor flaviventris Say, 18231933Hope, C.E.New Concord
A photograph of the species Geothlypis formosa, not of this specimenGeothlypis formosa (A.Wilson, 1811)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
A photograph of the species Melanerpes carolinus, not of this specimenMelanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758)1933Hope, C ENew Concord
Allocapnia recta (Claassen, 1924)1935H.H. Ross

All 1,059 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Glenn, John, Boyhood Home: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Westland QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Westland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Muskingum County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Concord, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$50,000A large tree fell on to a house, causing structural damage.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$25,000Law enforcement reported trees down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$10,000Muskingum County Dispatch reported that trees and power lines were down around the New Concord Area.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$10,000Trained spotter reported large trees blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$5,000Tress snapped along with structural damage in the area.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$5,000The public reported multiple trees down in New Concord, some of which fell on cars.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$2,000One tree fell onto a house.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$2,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$1,000A tree was blown down on to Harper Avenue.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$1,000Trees were reported down on North Liberty Street near Buckeye Street in New Concord.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Concord$1,000no account filed
July 2006Flash FloodNew Concord-Rte 83 was flooded between Bloomfield and Otsego in the northeast part of Muskingum County, beginning at 632 AM EDT. By 835 AM EDT, there was flooding in Adamsville; and along State Rte 16 in Adams Mills. One house was surrounded by water in Otsego area.
June 2013HailNew Concord-no account filed
April 2011HailNew Concord-no account filed
January 1999HailNew Concord-no account filed
April 1995HailNew Concord-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muskingum County

Map coverage status

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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stormont, David, Houseunder 500 feet1983
Harper, William Rainey, Log House0.1 miles1978
Paul Hall, Muskingum College0.2 miles1973
"S" Bridge II0.5 miles1973
Hardesty, Ralph, Stone House2.9 miles1980
West Union School4.5 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003210 in Record Group 79.
Muskingum CountyAll 70 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.
  • 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.