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Kelleys Island South Shore District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

From the record

One of 181 National Register listings published here for Erie County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Water St., S side of Kelleys Island, Kelleys Island
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. district
National Register reference number. 75001380 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kelleys Island South Shore District: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Marblehead Stone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Kelley Island Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kellys Island Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Marblehead Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Plant

Every working recorded in Erie County

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

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

1916 USGS Kelleys Island quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Kelleys Island quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Kelleys Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Kelleys Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1986 USGS Put-In-Bay quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Inscription Rock	0.3 miles	1973
Louis Beatty House	0.8 miles	1984
U.S. Coast Guard Building	7.4 miles	1982
Cedar Point Light	7.4 miles	1984
Dentzel, William H., 1921 Carousel	7.6 miles	1990
Coliseum	8.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001380 in Record Group 79.
Erie County	All 181 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.
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.