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Decorative drawing: a water-powered grist mill beside a millrace. Not a photograph of this place.

Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory

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

one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 structuress, 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 218 Cleveland St., Chagrin Falls, 44022
  • When was it listed? 2012-07-03
  • Category. building
  • Township. Chagrin Falls township
  • National Register reference number. 12000391 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 1,674 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,674 specimens collected within 10 miles of Adams Bag Company Paper Mill and Sack Factory between 1893 and 1975: 1,600 Animalia, 40 Plantae, 29 Fungi, 3 Protozoa, 1 incertae sedis, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. Woolman, AUSLEY, G, Adams 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
A photograph of the species Etheostoma caeruleum, not of this specimenEtheostoma caeruleum Storer, 18451893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Etheostoma nigrum, not of this specimenEtheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 18201893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Nocomis micropogon, not of this specimenNocomis micropogon (Cope, 1865)1893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Noturus flavus, not of this specimenNoturus flavus Rafinesque, 18181893A. WoolmanAurora Branch, Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Rhinichthys atratulus, not of this specimenRhinichthys atratulus (Hermann, 1804)1893WoolmanAurora branch of Chagrin River, Ohio
A photograph of the species Lycogala epidendrum, not of this specimenLycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 18291900Mrs. RusaxanCleveland Zoological Park, Cleveland.
Alternaria solani Sorauer1905Blusin? JacobSouth Euclid
Andrena Fabricius, 17751926Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Northfield, Oh
Andrenidae1926Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford, Ohio
Banchinae Wesmael, 18451926Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Northfield, Summit Co., OH
Calliphoridae1926Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Bedford, Cuyahoga Co., OH
Campopleginae Forster, 18691926Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Northfield, Oh

All 1,674 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms near this property

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chagrin Falls, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2005Flash FloodChagrin Falls$250,000no account filed
July 2015Flash FloodChagrin Falls$120,000Heavy rainfall of 1.5 to almost 3 inches fell between 1 and 4 pm causing flash flooding in Chagrin Falls. Water was flowing from upstream in Geauga County to the Chagrin Falls area and residents reported a 6-foot wall of water moved through the neighborhood and destroyed the wall of a walk out basement on Elm Court. Numerous other basements in the area were flooded. Several roads had to be closed due to the flooding. Rapid rises occurred on the Chagrin River with the water running swiftly and at high capacity.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed many trees and power lines.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls$15,000Winds of 60 mph were reported. Trees were downed including several on Solon Road. At least one house was damaged by a falling tree.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls$6,000Numerous large limbs were reported down. A two foot diameter tree was also uprooted.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls$5,000Several trees were reported down.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls$4,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls-Large tree limbs snapped off in Chagrin Falls.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindChagrin Falls-Trees downed in Chagrin Falls.
March 2020Flash FloodChagrin Falls-Chagrin Falls police department recorded fast flowing water several feet deep rushing down neighborhood streets.
August 2011HailChagrin Falls-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 1998Flash FloodChagrin Falls-Heavy thunderstorm rain caused flooding on Solon Road by the Chagrin River.

Every storm recorded in Cuyahoga 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.

From the nomination file

15,793 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 (Enter categories from instructions) -A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. - 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.

(Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) A owned by a religious institution or used for Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) religious purposes - B removed from its original location. - C a birthplace or a grave. - D a cemetery. -E a reconstructed building, object, or structure. - F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance Upham, William T. within the past 50 years. Narrative Statement of Significance 9.

The whole case file for this property - 15,793 words, 92 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 12000391, 92 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Stoneman, Joseph, House0.4 miles1975
Chagrin Falls Triangle Park Commercial District (Boundary Increase)0.4 miles1995
March, George, House0.4 miles1978
Chagrin Falls Township Hall0.4 miles1974
McFarland, Duncan, House2.7 miles2001
Keyt, Gideon, House5.5 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000391 in Record Group 79.
Cuyahoga CountyAll 338 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.