Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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
“For a few years after the coming of the above-mentioned pioneers, we have little knowledge of settlements made, and of those making them. William Simms and Samuel Brandenburg, the latter from Kentucky, entering land in Section 13, were early settlers of Pike, but the dates of their coming and further knowledge of them we have been unable to obtain.”
20th Century History of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens (1908). Machine-read text.
one of 32 National Register listings in Clark County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001343- 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.
Lhe survey completed, Foose and his party returned to Fraoklington for their fumilies. In their removal with their wagons, they made the first wagon-trucle from that direction into Springfield. The jouruey oveupied four wand uw hal! days, one day being given lo crossing the Big Darby. Virst they packed their goods acrosa upon horses, and then drew their wagons over with ropes, while some Their route through the woods had to be cleared with the axe in many places. After Moos arrived, he made prepirations for the erection of nh house.
One Myers was killed near Urbanw by a party of wandering Indians, and u fumily named Elliott, living on Mad Niver, was visited by an Indian of 'teeumsch's tribe, who demanded a buteher-knife of them, was refused, and told to leave. Mrs. Elliott was soon after out getting firewood in the door-yard, when o rifleshot was heard and o ball whistled through the front of her sun-bonnot and grazed the skiu upon her throat. These acts, coupled with the gathering together of the Indians under the Shawnee brothers, induced a panie among the people of this nnd other counties, Tho bold and warlike organized into companies. The tavern of Foos was made u temporary stronghold, while many fumilies Jeft in haste for their previous homes in Kentueky., The whites demauded the aggressors: (he Indians denied knowledge of their committal, and it was left to 1 council to be held ut Springfield. The commiasioners for the whites wore General Benjamin Whiteman, Major Moore, Captain Ward, and two others. he Indians were led by Tecumseh, Round Head, Black Fish, and other chiefs, The council took place in w maple-grove ncross the atreet from the tavern. The Tniiens bad come in two bodies; the band of Tecumseh from towards Fort Wayne, and one from the north, some seventy in numbor, in charge of McPherson. Each party, unfriendly to the other, charged them with the deeds unlawful. Me- Pherson's party, by request, had loft their arme at a distanos, but Tecumseh and his bravew refused to disarm themselves, the chief suying that in bis tomahawk was his pipo, and it might be needed for a smoke.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Myers Hall between
2002 and 2002, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
Debris and open burning
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
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 988 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Myers Hall between 1840 and
1975: 612 Animalia, 290 Plantae, 84 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 73.7; J.H., ?, A JOHN 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Myers Hall: 4 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 107 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 56 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 10 flash flood, 4 flood.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Several utility poles were down, a barn was blown off of its foundation, and minor damage occurred to a house and an apartment due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
A tornado touched down along Moorefield Road, just to the east of State Route 4. Trees were either uprooted or snapped off towards their tops with additional large limbs down from other trees. Some minor structural damage occured as well along the 250 yard damage path. The tornado was rated EF-0 with top wind speeds of 70 mph.
A barn was blown over on Victory Road. Several trees and power lines were down on Sintz Road. In another location, a roof was peeled back due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
There was scattered damage at a mobile home park affecting four mobile homes. A metal carport was heavily damaged. Three evergreen trees were also downed.
Numerous 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were downed in Snyder Park. A tree fell on a house on Upper Valley Pike. Part of the roof was removed as a result.
Three to four inches of rain fell across southern Clark County as thunderstorms pushed slowly east during the late evening. A car was washed into a flooded ditch near the Springfield Airport along US 68. High water caused several road closures across the southern part of the county, with basements flooded on the south side of Springfield.
2 papers published in this town,
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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
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a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
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From the nomination file
3,562 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
As originally conceived by Ezra Keller, founder of Wittenberg, the college was to consist of a four-story building, surmounted by an open cupola, and Keller, together with the Building Committee, marked out the ground for the each four bays wide, are four stories tall with simple, rectangular windows. The main entrance, reached by a flight of stone steps, is on the second level and facilities, as well as showers, new flooring in places, painting and general CONDITION UNEXPOSED UNALTERED DETERIORATED XALTERED XEXCELLENT All windows are rectangular.A stone water table crosses the tops of the removal of chimneys and the west step-gable.
is covered by a massive, three story pedimented portico which rests on brick Doric pilasters flanking the center three bays and is supported by four, fluted Doric entrances were to be placed on the end of each wing; these carried a one-story In 1954,Myers Hall was drastically renovated into a modern men's dormitory XORIGINAL SITE front portico was not constructed until 19l6,when the Myers brothers of Ashland The brick building is a central block with symmetrical wings.The wings, entered at the second floor level through an Ionic portice of six columns have simple stone lintels. was in that year,1889,the Board of Directors voted $3,134.57 to renovate the by a flight of stone stairs, crossing the entire front of the central section.
This main portion of the building was flanked on either side by wings of the was complete.The cornerstone of the main section was 1aid on August 14,1849. The central block is seven bays wide and four and one half stories tall. windows on the first level while the second, third, and fourth floor windows replacement of the woodwork and repair of the roof. columns.The pediment has a triglyph and metope frieze.
College, named for the German university town, was chartered in 1845, and Spring- berg College's first president was Ezra Keller. Keller, with a building committee, marked out the ground in July 1845; the architect or builders are not known. is known that by April 29, 1847, the work for the east wing was complete, for December 29, 1848 and was succeeded by Michael Diehl, acting president, and then in August, 1849. Samue1 Sprecher, his successor, in a letter of October, 1848 -- two months before in Springfield, now First Lutheran Church.
The same may be observed in his 1400-1499 1600-1699 1500-1599 AGRICULTURE ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT COMMERCE PREHISTORIC ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION PERIOD SCIENCE SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE INVENTION THEATER LITERATURE 1700-1799 MILITARY XARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC XRELIGION _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _ECONOMICS XEDUCATION INDUSTRY _CONSERVATION - EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT not to saddle aworthwhile project with a shabby building. He preferred to design Myers Hall is a testimony to the American pioneer spirit--the propagation of field was selected as its permanent site. _COMMUNICATIONS in an idiom different from that in which it was conceived.
1900- In 1842 the English Lutheran Synod of Ohio passed a resolution to establish - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN an educational institution emphasizing the liberal arts and theology. Wittenberg Keller saw the growth potential of Springfield and held it as a fixed principle grandiose plan for the College Building. by the new president Samuel Sprecher who laid the cornerstone of the main section well and worry about the financing later.He enunciated this principle to his death.This principle he applies in the letter to the subject of his church Keller's diary states that he preached there.Keller died of typhoid fever on
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001343, 23 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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