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Petersburg Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1970. 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 11 National Register listings in Carroll County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.70000487- 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.
Fires near this property
21 since 2005
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Petersburg Mill between
2005 and 2020, burning about 73 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
Debris and open burning
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 198 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Petersburg Mill between 1905 and
1975: 183 Animalia, 13 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.W. Cusick, Allen, E. J., Ash, G. (Gail), Buchanan, F. W. (Forrest W.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) 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
1 working within 5 miles of Petersburg Mill: 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Carrollton, the town this property stands in, in 57 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 38 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 flood.
The reports record 6 injuries. 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.
Lightning injured 6 people at a soccer game as they sat in lawn chairs. Some were holding umbrellas. Lightning struck the umbrella of a 37-year old man. He was critically injured. Three other adults and 2 children were slightly injured.
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has confirmed an EF1 tornado in the city of Carrollton on Saturday afternoon May 25th.|||The tornado touched down in a wooded area off of Crest |Street then lifted briefly across Canton Road NW before tearing the top of a |large hardwood tree behind the McDonald's. The worst of the damage |was an overturned single wide mobile home. There were shingles off |several other mobile homes within the mobile home park. A metal shed |was also destroyed. Intermittent touchdowns continued causing minor |damage and shingles off the roofs of a few homes along N Lisbon |Street. Numerous hardwood trees behind the aforementioned street |were snapped mid way up in a ravine.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. 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.
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
1,806 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.
Description of the property
Township 14, Range 6 of Union Township, Carroll County, Ohio. was erected, although deed records show ownership back to 1845. The The main structure is 26 by 36 feet, two and one half stories above a full under his management. It last operated in 1938. powered operation, but its restoration with steam power is feasible, even 4though the original machinery (engine and boiler) were junked for scrap CONDITION istics.
Excellent present mill was probably erected as a successor to an earlier structure millrace in relation to the mill indicate there was suffichent water fall supported original millstones.It is therefore assumed the waterwheel basement, which suggests than more than one run of buhrs were used during The mill's present condition would prohibit its restoration to a water can be traced without difficulty today.Elevations of the.dam and steam power was added.A Star engine made at Canton, Ohio was installed never replaced and continued in use until the mill ceased operation. No accurate information has been found establishing a date when the mill not been removed to obtain measurements or to determine other character- and boiler were later housed. to permit operation with an overshot wheel.
This original, water powered, later steam-powered, grist and roller mill Rutledges, Corys, Hardestys, and Millers were, rather, names of milling change from water to steam power, which change revolutionized agricultural in all details, but at considerable painstaking expense, as the basic structure is sound, only clapboarding, weatherbeaten and old, needing counties, particularly during its heyday. As a result, it was a center century due to their economic replacement, neglect, destruction, conversion to other purposes, or decay. repair. Commerce Art Alleghenies. Music Aboriginal Landscape Theater Transportation itarian SIGNIFICANCE Education losophy foothill region.
families which for generations maintained the small industrial outposts Political This mill is more typical than distinctive of thousands which flourished Social/Human- picturesque valley setting, but the needs of others in surrounding operation was more essential to maintenance of life in the last century of commercial activity, the hub of this predominately rural Appalachian structure and equipment remains to restore a steam roller mill complete general store also operated for many years at the site.
Pride in the products coming from the mill was a long tradition of the during the last century in Ohio.It shows in its very structure the Religion/Phi- Ohio and the nation with all domestic flour and ground feed needs.No This mill is one of only about 50 such structures of similar period and than was the grist mill, first industry of most states west of the A succession of owmers of the property contained no names associated with settlement with its own post office, carrying the mill's name.A serving farmers and townsfolk alike. - Military This particular mill served not only most of Carroll County from its purpose remaining in Ohio.Thousands have disappeared in the 2Oth AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate)
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000487, 15 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
4 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.
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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