Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1973. 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
“Barber Creamery, built in 1909, is an historic farm building located at 365 Portsmouth Avenue on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre (14 km²) Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural enterprise.”
Wikipedia article O. C. Barber Creamery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 137 National Register listings in Summit County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Summit County.
National Register reference number.73001539- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 694 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 694 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Barber, O. C., Creamery between 1867 and
1975: 588 Animalia, 61 Plantae, 43 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by (no collector listed), A. W. Cusick, A. Woolman 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 Barber, O. C., Creamery: 5 producers, 4 past producers, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal, Limestone, General. 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
Barberton, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning.
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.
Torrential rainfall on July 10th ended the streek of 13 days of measurable rain in the Barberton-Norton region, and ending it with the highest rainfall amounts measuring during that time. Almost seven inches of rain fell in the two weeks prior, and on the 10th rainfall amounts in the basin measured between 2 to 3 inches which fell in the hour between 230 and 330 PM. This extreme rainfall rate fell over already saturated ground and swollen stream and creeks, resulting in rapid runoff and flooding. Heavy rainfall of this magnitude overwhelmed the existing stormwater systems with extensive street flooding throughout Barberton. In many areas of Barberton the flooded streets drained within a few hours leaving many flooded basements, garages and yards. After the flash flooding had stopped, the upstream routed water caused the flood waters to continue a slow rise in Barberton. These areas began flooding during the night of July 10 and by the morning of July 11th flooding was reaching into new areas. Flood waters in most areas receded by Sunday July 14th leaving behind large areas of the City needing clean-up operations. The City estimates that over 700 buildings suffered some form of water intrusion including sewage backups.||14TH, 15TH & 16TH STREETS NW WOLF CREEK|Flooding began during the intense rain on the afternoon of July 10th and the area remained underwater for three days. The flooding closed bridges across Wolf Creek at Wooster Road West, Brady Ave., Norton Ave., and Barber Road in the City of Norton leaving only the Hopocan Ave. bridge crossing Wolf Creek in Barberton accessible. Over sixty businesses and residences reported flooding issues.|||NORTON AVE. BARBER ROAD, MIAMI ST. - WOLF CREEK|Rising waters of Wolf Creek over the night of July 10-11 flooded the commercial area on Norton Ave. Residents of the Shamrock Motel were evacuated on July 11 and businesses along the north side of Norton Ave. experienced up to two feet of flooding. Over thirty business and residences experienced flooding problems.||30th and 31ST STREETS NW, SOUTH AVE. - HUDSON RUN |Hudson Run experienced a rapid rise in floodwaters during the heavy rainfall in northwest Barberton and Norton. Flood conditions developed rapidly and affected a large Senior Citizen Complex that required evacuation by Barberton Safety Forces on the evening of July 10th along with a number of residences on 31st St. NW and South Ave. Floodwaters overtopped the spillway at the Columbia Lake Dam, about three-quarters of a mile downstream from Wooster Road and closed Hudson Run Road for a short period of time until gates on the dam were opened. |||COVENTRY ROAD , EAGON STREET INDUSTRIAL AREAS MUD RUN|Six businesses and three residences were affect by the floodwaters of Mud Run.||5TH ST. NE INDUSTRIAL AREA TUSCARAWAS RIVER|Three large industries were affected by flooding of parts of their complexes.
Barberton is at the headwaters of the Tuscarawas watershed and receives water from 3 additional tributaries; the Wolf Creek, Mud Run, and Hudson Run. On the morning of the 17th these basins received an estimated 3 inches of. The heaviest rain fell after 4 AM with severe flooding starting by 5 AM. June was a particularly wet month with around 2 inches of rain having fallen on the 16th. This enhanced runoff and made already swollen creeks overrun their banks on the 17th. Barberton is in a low area, so in addition to the rain the city receives, rain from surrounding areas flows into it, slowly putting the small city underwater. Up to three feet of 04water submerged some streets and up to six feet flooded many basements. The most significant impacts were from the Wolf Creek which flows south through Barberton. Flooding on 14th Street Northwest had up to 6 feet of water in their basements. Barber Road off ramp from I-76 was closed due to flooding. Miller Road between Brecksville and Barr Road, another main thruway was closed due to flooding. Several home and business owners were evacuated.
Many trees, power lines and utility poles were downed in the southern part of the county. A wind gust of 74 miles per hour was reported in Barberton and an 84 mile per hour gust was reported at Akron Canton Airport. Roofs of buildings at the airport were damaged as well the nose gear of an airplane. At Portage Lakes, boats were ripped from their moorings and turned upside down.
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From the nomination file
1,784 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
present age, as it reads "O. C. B. 1909". The Creamery is, like all of the other Anna Dean Farm buildings, used. Probably not pleased with the effect, Barber built the Entrance to the rest of the Creamery cannot be made through windows, about 8 feet high, are actually three separate sets of CONDITION DESCRIPTION these living quarters. these windows provided for natural lighting. section were large doors through which both milk trucks and square section that housed the dairykeeper and his family. used for distribution.On the extreme west side of this is a skylight that emits sunshine into a second story bathroom.
The Creamery is best described as having a long rectangular The two dairy rooms are both one story high and are connected other Anna Dean Farm buildings using only red brick.The only building in which different shades of red brick were overhangs.On the north side of the roof above the living quarters buildings after the Creamery had concrete dentil work instead of of the building clearly attests to its former owner and the Creamery and, even though there was electricity in the Creamery, connected to the furnace. The basement for the Creamery extends only under the living quarters. living quarters of the Creamery have i2 rooms on two floors.
while the room in the west section of the Creamery was section running east to west with a smaller square section made of brick and trimmed with concrete block.Mr. Barber had milk wagons were loaded. The dairy section of the Creamery is built on a slab.
In 1890, O. C. Barber, head of the Akron based Diamond Match Company, was sued by the city of Akron for over $163,000 amounted to over $600,000 annually. Outraged over the suit, Barber decided to move his match Crouse, and Colonel George T. Perkins, Barber purchased more and called the city's natural lake, Anna, after his daughter. the Anna Dean Farm in 1905 and the first building, Barn No.
1 When the Anna Dean Farm was completed, there were twenty-three buildings in all, including a forty room mansion and twelve incubators, trucks, and a wide assortment of gadgets that cost In the East room of the Creamery the milk, taken from Barber's REGISTER Conservation NATIONAL Communications Architecture Military Commerce Engineering Landscape Theater Aboriginal Literature Prehistoric Invention Science Religion/Phi Music Industry ten times their worth. Education Political Transportation itarian Sculpture Social/Human- farm would soon make it self-sufficient.In keeping with his Barber insisted that his Creamery be mechanized. company and its subsidiaries to some land he owned near be completed by Ohio Columbus Barber. Opened in 1909,it was the longest-running Anna Dean enterprise.
beliefs of scientific farming, he purchased steam tractors, later by the Creamery. him on 2,ooo southeast of Barberton.Construction began on The Creamery was the second Anna Dean Farm building to By 1894 Barber's business interests had abandoned Akron and called in Michael Alexander and had him lay out a farm for paid a penny federal tax on each 100 matches he made, which Barber named the new town Barberton, in honor of himself, Iand and had Michael Alexander lay out a town for him. Barber had ignored the city tax, as he New Portage. With the backing of John Robinson, George 1,000 head of prize dairy cattle which (continued) 1909 losophy in back taxes.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 73001539, 12 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.
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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