Benjamin Lundy House

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1812. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1905.

From the record

“The Benjamin Lundy House is a historic house at Union and Market Streets in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was home in 1820 to abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839), where he established the influential anti-slavery newspaper The Genius of Universal Emancipation, one of the first anti-slavery publications in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Benjamin Lundy House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1812 · a National Historic Landmark.

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.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Listed as. Lundy, Benjamin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Union and 3rd Sts., Mt. Pleasant, 43939
When was it listed? 1974-05-30
Category. building
Township. Mount Pleasant township
When was it built? 1812
National Register reference number. 74001537 - 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.

Fires near this property

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Benjamin Lundy House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 45 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	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
12 April 2014	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
27 March 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
16 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	443
10 March 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named
22 February 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	15424
12 November 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 142 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 142 specimens collected within 10 miles of Benjamin Lundy House between 1876 and 1965: 133 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Arden R. Gaufin, C.H. Kennedy, Calkins, W. W. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Circus cyaneus (Linnaeus, 1766)	1876	Collector(s): C. G. Newberry	York Township
Mniotilta varia (Linnaeus, 1766)	1876	Collector(s): C. G. Newberry	York Township
Ionaspis lacustris (With.) Lutzoni	1893	Calkins, W. W.	Short Creek
Taxonus pallicoxus	1924	C.H. Kennedy
Halictidae	1925	Pallister, J. C. (John C.)	Harrisville, Ohio
Atrichopogon levis (Coquillett, 1901)	1927	not recorded	Smithfield
Bombus affinis Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded	Jug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus bimaculatus Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded	Jug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863	1927	not recorded	Jug Run, Smith-field, OH
Bombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)	1927	not recorded	"Jug Run, Smith-field, OH"""
Macrophya Dahlbom, 1835	1927	C.H. Kennedy
Macrophya alboannulata Costa, 1859	1927	not recorded

All 142 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1905 USGS St. Clairsville quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS Dillonvale quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1962 USGS Canton quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Pittsburgh West quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Friends Meetinghouse	0.1 miles	1970
Mount Pleasant Historic District	0.3 miles	1974
Ann E. Lewis Bernhard House	4.7 miles	2005
Hamilton-Ickes House	5.1 miles	1980
Stringer Stone House	6.2 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001537 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 24 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.
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.