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
“Greenfield township was organized about the year 1815, and then embraced the townships of New Haven, Greenfield, Peru, Norwich and Fairfield, for township purposes, and continued so until each of the above townships contained a sufficient number of inhabitants for separate organization. In the year 1819, the name of this township was changed to Berlin, and continued by that name until 1822, when the name of Greenfield was restored.”
History of Huron County Ohio Its Progress and Development (1909). Machine-read text.
one of 15 National Register listings in Huron County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.75001440- 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.
Greenfield township was organized about the year 1815, and then embraced the townships of New Haven, Greenfield, Peru, Norwich and Fairfield, for township purposes, and continued so until each of the above townships contained a sufficient number of inhabitants for separate organization. In the year 1819, the name of this township was changed to Berlin, and continued by that name until 1822, when the name of Greenfield was restored. The reason for giving it the name of Berlin, was owing to there being a Greenfield township in Highland county, with a postoffice of the same name. At the restoration of the original name of the township, the postoffice was called Lafayette, and Joseph Cook was the first postmaster. The office continued to be called Lafayette until 1835, when the name was changed to Steuben.
Mr. Seba Mather opened the first public house in the township in the year 1816 which he kept until 1820, when he discontinued and established the mills east of Steuben and carried on an extensive business for thirty years when he retired to his farm and spent the remainder of his life and died at the advanced age of eighty-eight years.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 790 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Phoenix Mills between 1885 and
1974: 505 Plantae, 204 Animalia, 66 Fungi, 15 Protozoa. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. P. Morgan, Baumgartner, L., C. E. Jennings 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
2 workings within 5 miles of Phoenix Mills: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. 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
Steuben, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
More than 127 sites on Huron County roads needed repairs after flood waters caused erosion damage. Along with severe roadside erosion, many culverts and small bridges were washed out from the flooding.
An EF1 tornado touched down about a mile west of Steuben on the south side of State Route 162. The tornado moved north and damaged a couple large grain bins. The bins were caved in on their south facing sides. Towers on the top of the bins were toppled in different directions. A semi truck near the bins was knocked over. The tornado then crossed State Route 162 and damaged a home and a barn. The house lost a section of roofing which was found scattered to the south of the house. The tornado damaged another small grain bin before lifting over open farmland. This tornado was on the ground for just over a half mile.
An EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph tracked southeastward from near the intersection of OH-61 and Hanville Corners Road toward the intersection of OH-162 and Walnut Road. The tornado snapped a pine tree and damaged several other trees during its brief lifespan just west of North Fairfield.
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
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From the nomination file
2,143 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.
Statement of significance
In 1835 Ezra Smith built a frame mill on the site of the existing mill. This building burned prior to 1856. The of the mythological bird. The use of stone for the entire 1856 Conservation Commerce Communications Transportation Architecture Military Aboriginal SIGNIFICANCE losophy Theater Science Engineering Education REGISTER Literature Prehistoric individual builder. RECEIVED Agriculture Pre-Columbian Music Landscape NATIONAL Social/Human- external structure, including corbels, brackets and roof, structure in Huron County. Sculpture Barnett Roe, born in England in 1810, grew up in Cayuga building. though the usage is uncommon. County, New York, and came to Huron County with his Political Religion/Phi.
of the Smith Mill, the builder gave the mills the name parents about 1834.Working in farming and carpentry as well construction features, and is the only remaining mill in 1856.Because the Phoenix Mills arose from the ashes indicates the desire to make the building thoroughly MAR 1 2 1975 as milling, he later owned a sawmill, a cheese factory, a that there is more than one machine located in a single The Phoenix gristmill has.or had a number of unique fireproof.The plural 'mills" evidently refers to the fact stone quarry and two farms.Roe died in 1877,and the Art itarian Phoenix Mills constitute an impressive monument to an present mill was constructed by Barnett Roe of Steuben
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001440, 13 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
1 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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