Built in 1800. 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
“The Eighteen Mile House is a historic house near the city of Harrison in western Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. Built as a tavern by unknown individuals in the early years of the nineteenth century, its construction date is unknown: some hold it to have been erected in 1800, others in 1815, and yet others at a vague date between 1800 and 1810.”
Wikipedia article Eighteen Mile House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1800 · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.75001427- 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.
This township had its origin in the manifest need of a new municipality for the convenience of the increasing population in the northwestern part of the county, which in 1853 caused the erection by the county commissioners of Harrison from Crosby and Whitewater townships. It is the northernmost township of the county. Its boundary lines are wholly artificial, and begin on the dry fork of Whitewater, at the southeast quarter of section thirty-three, in range one, township three; thence westward three miles to the county and State line; thence north six miles to the Butler county line; thence east three miles to the northeast corner of section four; thence south to the place of beginning. Dearborn county, Indiana, lies next to the westward; Butler county on the north; four miles of Crosby and two miles of Whitewater townships on the east; and Whitewater township on the south.
Harrison lies altogether upon Congress land, in the west half of the third township, range one. It thus contains eighteen sections of land, which cover a little more territory than so many exactly full sections, by reason of some divergence of meridian lines in the easternmost tier, making some of them a little broader than should be. The central and western tiers are beautifully regular squares, appropriately exact. The acres of the township number eleven thousand one hundred and forty-seven.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 497 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Eighteen Mile House between 1835 and
1975: 219 Animalia, 218 Fungi, 41 Plantae, 17 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. P. Morgan, A. R. Gaufin, A.P. Morgan 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.
In America boerali prope Fernbank, ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope North-Bend (Kentucky). | Fernbank - ad ripas fluminis Ohio, prope ''North Bend.'' [=In northern America, near Fernbank, beside the Ohio River, near North Bend (Kentucky).]
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
28 workings within 5 miles of Eighteen Mile House: 15 past producers, 9 producers, 4 plants.
13 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Harrison, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain.
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.
Damage occurred to the roof of an apartment complex on Harrison Avenue between Walnut and State Streets. The loss of some insulation was also reported.
Three trees were downed in Harrison. Several tree limbs up to four inches in diameter and street signs were knocked down near White Oak. Siding was peeled off of a few homes.
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
1,594 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
CONDITION the west facade.At the second level there is a center door flanked gabled tin roof and interior end chimneys.There is a one story shed roof concrete block addition on the north side.The main west facade two small windows at the attic level flanking the chimney. window slightly off center to the west.There are two small windows the cornice of the concrete block addition. at the attic level flanking the chimney. level isa larger similar window.To the north of this is a doorway The Eighteen Mile House is a two and a half story brick building with On the north above the one story addition at the second level by two 6/6 double hung sash windows.
(Check One) has five bays with center entry.There are two 6/6 double hung sash Fair with a small window above.There are two twelve light windows near windows on each side of the door.There is a porch at both levels on On the south facade at the first level there is a 6/6 double hung sash there is a 6/6 double hung sash window.In the center at the first Good Pre-Columbian | ) 16th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) - Urban Planning - Prehistoric X Other (Specify) - Science - Military - Theater - Transportation STATEMENT OF
Statement of significance
APR 3 0 1975 Communications Commerce losophy Conservation Architecture REGISTER Landscape Aboriginal Engineering SIGNIFICANCE NATIONAL Literature Art Agriculture RECEIVED itarian Invention Political Industry Social/Human- Sculpture Music The Eighteen Mile was probably built in the first decade Raiders during the Civil War in July,1863.Local tradition holds which the owners of the Eighteen Mile House operated.The inn also that Abraham Lincoln stayed at the inn. Local History Religion/Phi. also a toll gate three-fourths of ahmile on the way to Cincinnati C.1800-1810 Education PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) miles from Cincinnati, hence its name. coach on the Brookville, Indiana-Cincinnati route.
It is eighteen of the Nineteenth Century, served as an inn and layover for the stage stock pens for the farmers' stock on their way to market.There was served as a post office.It was one of the places raided by Morgan's Originally there were live-
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001427, 13 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.
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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