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.
Then and now
1906 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19061994
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.
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.
Heavy 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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
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