Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2012. 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
“(Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.) Located in South Newbury, Union Chapel has had a major impact on Geauga County's history. Built in 1858, Union Chapel was created according to the Lease Record to be utilized for "literary, scientific, moral and dedication for use in this fashion would allow a variety of organizations to call Union Chapel home as they intention of ending alcohol consumption to create a purified world.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for South Newbury Union Chapel. Machine-read text.
one of 11 National Register listings in Geauga County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.12000033- 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.
The township of Newbury is situated in range eight (8), town seven (7). It is the second tier from the south and the second from the west, being in the southwest part of Geauga county. It is laid out in three (3) tracts, known as tract one, tract two and tract three.
The first improvements in the township of Newbury is supposed to have been made by Judge Stone, near North Newbury, about 1802. Judge Stone settled in the township of Burton, but cleared land in both townships about the same time. Soon after Mr. Lemuel Punderson came from Connecticut as a land agent for some eastern land companies, and commenced making improvements.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of South Newbury Union Chapel between
2019 and 2019, burning about 1 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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 2,552 specimens
collected within 10 miles of South Newbury Union Chapel between 1887 and
1975: 2,441 Animalia, 102 Plantae, 9 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Hoenigman, A. M. Evans, A. Woolman 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
3 workings within 5 miles of South Newbury Union Chapel: 2 producers, 1 past producer.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
From the nomination file
6,707 words on record
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 (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high Period of Significance artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack important in prehistory or history.
Significant Person (Mark "x" in all the boxes that apply.) (Complete only if Criterion B is marked above.) Owned by a religious institution or used for religious removed from its original location. C a birthplace or grave. D a cemetery. E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. F a commemorative property. less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years. The period of significance begins with the building of the South Newbury Union Chapel and ends in 1948 with the formation of the Ladies Aid Association, one of the last organizations to meet in the building for an extended, ongoing basis, and whose founding was tied to the history and preservation of the Union Chapel. 1858-1948 history. purposes.
Architect/Builder Property is: Significant Dates Period of Significance (justification) Cultural Affiliation (Enter categories from instructions.) Social History Applicable National Register Criteria Criteria Considerations individual distinction. Geauga County Ohio Name of Property County and State Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information United States Department of the Interior NPS Form 10-900 OMB No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 12000033, 30 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
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.
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.
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