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.72001007- 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 11 fires within 5 miles of Concord Hall between
2012 and 2020, burning about 16 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
7
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 2,647 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Concord Hall between 1839 and
1975: 1,863 Animalia, 528 Fungi, 241 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
10 workings within 5 miles of Concord Hall: 6 past producers, 4 producers.
4 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
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From the nomination file
3,450 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
approximately 54' x 45' On the second floor there is a bedroom, which was once a ballroom, above able fireplaces, each with a different mantelpiece design. ment walls are of sandstone block, ceiling is hand-hewn oak timbers and CONDITION The base- Concord Hall is a two-story brick mansion with sandstone trim.The roof Ruins combination of the Federal and Georgian Colonial styles.The front facade is five-part with a full-length porch supported by sandstone pillars. gable containing a large elliptical window to the attic dominates this of the house is a later addition.Outside dimensions of the house are the insulation is formed of clay and straw. A graceful spiral stairway leads to the second floor and to the attic. The first floor contains a large center hall with two rooms to either side.
which a tunnel leads from the house),a brick carriage house and a (Check One) X Original Site /There are several other buildings on the property, including a large barn Excellent springhouse. Moved Fair facade.The center door is surrounded by sidelights and an elliptical is hipped and has a center cupola and widow's walk.The design isa These ca.1897pillars replace the original wooden columns.A three-bay PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
came to Ohio from Hanover, Germany. Capt. Witte was on General Blucher's staff at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. His brother, an architect in made bricks, quarried stone and cut lumber here on the property. C. Schur, who came from Germany in 1830, superintended the building. train from Cincinnati passed the house.
Her fiance, George Witte, son of Several original panes of glass, with names and dates scratched on them, Martin, whose grandson and heir is the great, great, great, great grandson shows the unmistakable influence of the Georgian Colonial style, in 1831 Conservation Commerce Military Science Aboriginal Communications Engineering losophy Architecture Transportation Religion/Phi SIGNIFICANCE Literature Music Education Prehistoric Landscape Pre-Columbian Agriculture Theater Political Sculpture Social/Human Capt.Witte lost a fortune in whiskey when a dishonest canal boat captain front with the sandstone columns quarried on the farm.The old quarry early 19th century large country houses in southern Ohio.Its design stole the shipment.He was forced to sell his property to his partner it to the present owners.
Capt. Witte brought workmen from Germany who, along with local help, Invention combination with the Federal style, which reached the Midwest before 1820. shipped by canal boat. the employ of the royal family of Hanover, drew the plans for the house. Concord Hal1 was started in 1829 by Capt.Augustus Witte (born 1788) who Concord Hall is architecturally one of the finest and best-preserved of the Industry field" on the east side of Boving Road opposite the eastern, and only, entrance to Concord Hall. The property was then known as "The Steam Mill". during the Civil War, waved a Condederate flag from the widow's walk as the Jamison restored the house in 1950 and lived here until 1954 when he sold A grist mill and distillery were located in the barn.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 72001007, 30 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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