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 5 National Register listings in Morgan County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.70000512- 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 ground it stands on
110 words
This property stands in Windsor Township. Census 1880 Morgan County Ohio, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so
expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words,
stray characters.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Big Bottom Massacre Site between
2012 and 2019, burning about 11 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
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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 526 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Big Bottom Massacre Site between 1887 and
1974: 471 Animalia, 45 Plantae, 9 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, Adler, K. K., Albaugh, D. W. (Douglas W.) 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Big Bottom Massacre Site: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Stockport, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 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.
A barn and several other out-buildings were damaged. A number of trees were downed. A downburst is believed to have occurred with winds to 70 MPH (61 kts).
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
1,893 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
was left for a rainy day, or some more convenient time. They had also neglected to inclose their house with palisades, and ceasing to 1935. A monument of stone has been erected and the site is now a Pioneer History, states that "it (the blockhouse) was built of large, Good - 16th Century SPECIFIC DATEIS) (Il Applicable and Known) January 2, 1791 - Prehistoric - Engineering - Industry - Invention - Science - Architecture - Landscape - Sculpture - Commerce - Literature - Communications - Music STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
The Ohio Company, based in Marietta at the mouth of the Muskingum River, had adopted as one of its policies the granting of donation lands to actual settlers within the Company's boundaries. As a result, several new settlements sprang up in 1790. A company, or association, composed "Big Bottom" because of its size, which was 4 to 5 miles in length. The land was very fine. Hildreth states that on the first or low bottom, a few rods from the left bank of the river, the men erected a blockhouse of the largest size.
The settlers were young, unmarried men and little acquainted, apparently, with of 1791, but they chose to ignore this advice and erected the blockhouse during the summer, were well aware of the locations of earlier cabins in the area and set out during a slight thaw in December, 1790 to destroy them. It is thought that they were unaware of the station at Big Bottom and caught sight of it by chance from the high ground on the west side of The Choates and two others were taken prisoner at the cabin, while 12 occupants of the blockhouse were killed and one taken prisoner. The bodies were piled on the floor of the blockhouse and set afire. The occupants of another nearby cabin fled to Wolf Creek Mills to warn of but because a guard was on watch, did not attack.
When news of the attack reached the downriver settlements of Beverly and Marietta, preparations were quickly made for defense, blockhouses and palisades strengthened and men and arms readied.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000512, 14 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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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