Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1972. 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
“Samuel Coates, Jr. was postmaster in 1800, the mail coming once a week via Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Maysville, and here we see the changes 100 years have wrought. The rural routes from Lancaster bring practically every farmer in Hocking township his mail every day.”
History of Fairfield County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (1912). Machine-read text.
one of 29 National Register listings in Fairfield County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Fairfield County.
National Register reference number.72001006- 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.
In this township Lancaster is situated, near its northern and eastern borders. Its name derives from the Hockhocking river, which flows past its western and southern limits. The history of Lancaster is a large part of the history of Hocking ' Township. And the history of the first settlements of the county would, in a general way, be the history of all frontier life seventy years ago.
Samuel Coates, Jr. was postmaster in 1800, the mail coming once a week via Zane's Trace from Wheeling to Maysville, and here we see the changes 100 years have wrought. The rural routes from Lancaster bring practically every farmer in Hocking township his mail every day. There are only two small villages in the township : Del Mount, a station on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley R. R. ; and Hamburg in the southern part of the township.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Ridge Farm between
2007 and 2020, burning about 20 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
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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 2,623 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Chestnut Ridge Farm between 1839 and
1975: 1,842 Animalia, 528 Fungi, 238 Plantae, 7 Protozoa, 6 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Schrader, Angerman, C. (Carl) & Triplehorn, C. A. (Charles A.), Asa Gray; W. S. Sullivant 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
7 workings within 5 miles of Chestnut Ridge Farm: 4 past producers, 3 producers.
3 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lancaster, the town this property stands in, in 97 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 48 thunderstorm wind, 32 hail, 9 flash flood, 4 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Flash flooding along Fetters Run near College Avenue caused damage to the roadway, as well as significant damage to the Lancaster Festival stages, equipment, and vehicles.
Multiple water rescues occurred in the apartment complex along Sater Drive where water was over three feet deep. Additionally, over 30 vehicles were flooded in deep water.
Multiple swift water rescues were needed for animals trapped inside of a building submerged with three to four feet of water on Granville Pike. The building backs up to Fetters Run stream.
Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across the eastern part of the county. There was minor damage to siding and gutters on a few homes on Betz Road, to the west of Lancaster.
A ground survey with assistance form the Fairfield County EMA confirmed a brief and weak tornado touched down in the southwest part of Lancaster.||The survey revealed an eyewitness report of a very weak tornado on the ground near a residence at the west end of Mount Ida Avenue in Lancaster. No damage occurred at this residence. From there the weak tornado moved east through a wheat field with a narrow path of flattened wheat in a convergent pattern. From there the tornado moved between Tarhe Street and Twin Creek Way where minor tree damage occurred, including a couple of uprooted trees and snapped limbs. The tornado appears to have lifted as it approached south Broad Street.
6 papers 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.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned 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
from Robertand Nancy Carnes 180 acres of rolling, wooded land.' A two- His home, Chestnut Ridge, was built in the Gothic revival style, using house, except for the "tower" which had been changed, intact. revival style in southern Ohio and, as such, is well worthy of preservation. Architecture Conservation Science Military SIGNIFICANCE Communications Engineering Aboriginal REGISTER losophy Literature Commerce itarian NATIONAL Music Religion/Phi Education Transportation Agriculture Prehistoric Theater Landscape Industry architecture in Fairfield County.In 1843 Frederick Shaeffer purchased Sculpture Political Urban Planning Social/Human- burned.The present owners have maintained the original part of the and is still standing.Mr.
Shaeffer was a tailor by trade and had come on foot from Lancaster, Pa.to establish a successful inn. Chestnut Ridge is one of the few remaining examples of Gothic revival Chestnut Ridge isa fine example ofa unique variation of the Gothic Gilbert Shaeffer inherited the house and occupied it until 1887.In 1887 Mr.and Mrs.Nathan Butler bought the farm.They added in the 1890's story log house,built about 1810,was on the property at that time Other (Specify) the present frame "tower" in place of the original widow's walk which 18 1972 Art red brick, sandstone and elaborate wood carving both inside and out. RECEIVED AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 10.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72001006, 11 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.
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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