Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 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.
“Shaw Farm is a registered historic building near Ross, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1974-07-24.”
Wikipedia article Shaw Farm (Ross, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 63 National Register listings in Butler County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Butler County.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The chapter on Ross Township in A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882 names Ross. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
Ross Township was rich in the original growth of her timber. Poplar, oak, buckeye, ash, walnut, sycamore, hickory, wild cherry, gum, sugar-tree, sassafras, and dogwood grew spontaneously. A very large portion of the ereek and river bottoms were covered with spice and hazel bushes, wild gooseberry bushes, black currants, which in some places spread over several acres, pawpaw bushes, wild onions, pea-vines, thistles, briers, burrs, and weeds. This growth was so dense in some places as to make it impassable. And here lived all manner of game. The hunter liked best of all the deer or wild turkey. Both abounded here in the beginning of this century. Along the Miami, wild geese and brant, as well as ducks and other water-fowl, lived by the thousands. In the woods were pheasants, quails, squirrels, foxes, wolves, and all their neighbors... It was the general custom of the people for many years to spend a portion of every Fall in hunting. The Miami was also full of fish, immense quantities of which were taken in nets or drag seines made of brush.
Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
Among the first voting precincts in Ross Township was Judge Knox's, near the bank of Indian Creek, one mile above the iron bridge. This place of voting was in existence from 1820 to 1835. A man by the name of Smith was an early settler in this region, and owned the farm on which Judge Knox afterwards lived. Smith had a still-house here,
Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Ross Township - 25,952 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 149 specimens collected within 10 miles of Shaw Farm between 1879 and 1975: 113 Animalia, 28 Plantae, 6 Fungi, 2 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. R. Gaufin, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Leptostromataceae | 1883 | Prof. W. A. Kellerman | |
 | Phyllosticta Pers., 1818 | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Lancaster. |
 | Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819) | 1879 | W. Douglass | Jones Station |
 | Mimus polyglottos (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1879 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones |
 | Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1879 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones |
 | Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein, 1812) | 1880 | Porter collection, J.B. | LOCNM: Jones Station |
 | Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1880 | W. Douglass | Jones Station |
 | Phyllosticta decidua Ellis & Kellerm. | 1883 | W. A. Kellerman | Fairfield |
 | Botaurus Stephens, 1819 | 1891 | J. S. Ligon | Ross Lake |
 | Mermis Dujardin, 1842 | 1896 | W. Brown | Hamilton |
 | Neoharmonia venusta ampla (Mulsant, 1850) | 1898 | not recorded | |
| Equisetum arvense L. | 1916 | Simon, M. | Silver Hook - See "ABC Pathfinder New England Railway Publishing Company, 1899" p. 622. |
All 149 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Shaw Farm: 7 past producers, 7 producers, 2 plants. 9 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F and C Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| F and C Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairfield Plant No. 10 & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Plant | ||
| Fairfield Plant Number 10 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Hilltop Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Indian Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Indian Creek Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ross Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ross Plant Number 15 and Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Ross | $3,000 | Water was reported over numerous roads countywide. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | $3,000 | Several trees were downed, some on roads. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | $1,000 | Large branches were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
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.
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.
tored, but the interior has been altered. Downstairs, The Excellent RECEIVED there are stone quoins.The shed-roofed addition at the front facade is five bays across.The stone for the house came PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian! - 20th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Political - Urban Planning - Religion/Phi- ] Science ] Sculpture ] Social/Human- ] Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF
daughter of a Revolutionary War captain, and they moved to Ohio in 1799. In 1801 Albin Shaw formed a company with Jeremy Butterfield, Asa Harvey, Noah Willey, Albin's brother, Knowles, and his father of sections of land on the west side of the Great Miami River Albin went to Washington, D. C. in 1804 and returned with the Colerain Pike, was recently torn down. The other is the Shaw house. Albin's grandson, also named Knowles, was born in the house in The Shaw Farm looks much as it did when it was built in 1804 and is a fine example of an early stone house.
FEB 2 8 1974 1804 Conservation Communications Commerce Landscape Architecture Engineering REGISTER losophy SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Education NATIONAL Literature Prehistoric itarian Music Invention Industry Agriculture Military necessary papers signed by Thomas Jefferson.Albin built two One of the earliest stone houses in Butler County, the Shaw Farm 1834.He was a noted evangelist and songwriter who wrote land with a front on the river. Because there was a question of the title to the land being clear, Other (Specify) AREAs OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Shaw's six children. In 1784 Albin married Eunice Caldwell, the in 1878 and is buried in Rushwell, Indiana.
Art RECEIVED "Bringing in the Sheaves".Knowles was killed in a train wreck John Shaw.The company bought two full sections and two parts
The whole case file for this property - 1,259 words, 9 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001405, 9 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howell and Anna Powell Farm | 1.0 miles | 2019 | |
 | Scott, John, Barn and Granary | 1.8 miles | 2005 |
 | Vaughan, John, House | 2.4 miles | 1975 |
 | Thomas Select School | 2.7 miles | 1977 |
 | Cochran Farm | 5.7 miles | 1973 |
 | Morgan Township House | 5.7 miles | 2016 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001405 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Butler County | All 63 listed properties in this county. |
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