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Photograph of Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Young, Col. Charles, House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 2013. 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.

From the record

“The Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Monument of the United States, commemorates the life of Charles Young (1864-1922), an escaped slave who rose to become a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and its first African-American colonel. It is located on United States Route 42 in Wilberforce, Ohio, in a house purchased by Young in 1907 that was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974.”

Wikipedia article Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 30 National Register listings in Greene County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 2013 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Greene County.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Columbus Pike between Clifton and Stevenson Rds., Wilberforce, 45385
  • When was it listed? 1974-03-30
  • Category. building
  • Township. Xenia township
  • When was it built? 2013
  • National Register reference number. 74001506 - 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 923 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 923 specimens collected within 10 miles of Young, Col. Charles, House between 1870 and 1975: 663 Animalia, 142 Plantae, 116 Fungi, 1 Protozoa, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A JOHN, A. H. Bauer 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Leiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.EvansLeiocolea gillmanii (Austin) A.Evans1922William Bayard Taylor; G. H. ConklinClifbore[sp?] Gorge
Specimen of Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.Leiocolea badensis (Gottsche ex Rabenh.) Jørg.1923Mrs. Bayard R. TaylorClifton Gorge
A photograph of the species Bidens bipinnata, not of this specimenBidens bipinnata L.1870J Y Bergen; T L BergenYellow Springs
A photograph of the species Rhynchostegium serrulatum, not of this specimenRhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) A.Jaeger1873Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Rhytidium rugosum, not of this specimenRhytidium rugosum (Hedw.) Kindb.1873not recordedClifton
A photograph of the species Thamnobryum alleghaniense, not of this specimenThamnobryum alleghaniense (Müll.Hal.) Nieuwl.1875H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
Brachythecium laetum (Brid.) Schimp.1876not recordedClifton
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) A.Jaeger1876Mrs. Spence
A photograph of the species Bryum affine, not of this specimenBryum affine (Blandow ex Funck) Brid.1876Collector unspecifiedClifton
A photograph of the species Eurhynchium hians, not of this specimenEurhynchium hians (Hedw.) Sande Lac.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton
A photograph of the species Geocalyx graveolens, not of this specimenGeocalyx graveolens (Schrad.) Nees1876not recordedClifton
Plagiochila asplenioides (L.) Dumort.1876H. J. BiddlecomeClifton

All 923 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Young, Col. Charles, House: 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Armentrout Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Armentrout Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Phillips Sand and Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Richards and Son Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Xenia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Xenia Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilberforce, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailWilberforce$8,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWilberforce$5,000A few trees were downed along Wilberforce-Clifton Road as well as Jones Road.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWilberforce$4,000Power lines were snapped, and trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Greene County

Map coverage status

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

959 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 reproduced in full on its own page, word for word and 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.

The whole case file for this property - 959 words, 7 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 74001506, 7 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hollencamp House1.8 miles1980
East Second Street District1.9 miles1973
Xenia Carnegie Library1.9 miles2015
Emery Hall2.0 miles2005
Carnegie Library (Old Wilberforce University Campus)2.0 miles2004
Conner, Alexander, House2.0 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001506 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greene CountyAll 30 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • 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.