Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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
“We have not access to the records of the organization of this congregation. The earliest records attainable were made in 1838, at which time Rev.”
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County : from the Earliest to the Present Date (1863). Machine-read text.
one of 11 National Register listings in Ashland County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001364- 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.
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Vermillion township, The inset identifies its exact
source book and publication year.
"The Coulter family are known as among the earliest settlers at Perrysville, on the Black Fork. Thomas Coulter (the father of John) was born in the State of New York, and moved from thence with his father to the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, and was living there at the time of the Wyoming massacre.
The original proprietors of the town of Hayesville were Rev. John Cox and Linus Hayes. As the Loudonville and Ashland, and Wooster and Mansfield roads crossed at this point, Mr. Cox concluded that it might be the site of a future town. He accordingly gave notice of a sale of lots, and on the day named a considerable number assembled to attend the sale. The business opened in the forenoon, and the auctioneer, John Shriver, expended his "yelloquence" in vain on the advantages offered, for no bids whatever could be obtained. At noon Mr. Cox despaired of being the founder of a town in this locality, and offered his whole farm for three hundred dollars. Even this offer, however, he could persuade no one to accept.
In tills extremity some one suggested that whisky possessed a virtue in these matters which might insure better success. A jug of that beverage was tlierefore obtained, a quantity of poke berries placed in it, and, under the name of "cherry bounce," offered the crowd, who partook of it h^eely. After a little " things worked," tlie services of John Shriver were dispensed with, and T. J. Bull, of Loudonville, mounted a cliestnut stump which stood about the place now occupied by the town fountain, where the principal streets cross, and again offered the first lots in the embryo town of Hayesville. After a little effort the first lot (tlie one now occupied by Armentrout & Son) was sold to David Richmond (a shoemaker) for seventy-five dollars. At the close of the da}- a mere fraction of the land, which at noon he liad offered for three hundred dollars, had been sold for more than twice that amount. Great is whisky, and great are sometimes its conquests.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hayesville Opera House between
2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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
3
Equipment and vehicle use
2
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 379 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hayesville Opera House between 1846 and
1975: 351 Animalia, 26 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by Auten, B Zahuranec & party, B.H., H.P., M.A. & R. Rhoades 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 Hayesville Opera House: 2 past producers.
None of them 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
Hayesville, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood.
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.
Flooding occurred from heavy thunderstorm rains on top of already saturated soil. Roads were closed from flood waters. Telephone poles being readied to replace storm damage poles from previous days floated away down County Road 1802.
A local newspaper reported trees downed southeast of Hayesville. There was also a social media report of roof damage to a barn between Hayesville and Loudonville.
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
2,175 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
The Hayesville Opera House is a rather plain, nearly square, two-storied brick rectangular display windows and 1/1, round-arched windows irregularly placed series of round medallions in each. There is a simple, brick corbelling at the The "raked" or tilted stage is flanked by four original 'gaslit' dressing rooms. The pride of the theater is its set of six, well-preserved, panels of original in the left hand corner. particular interest is this: "Buffalo Bill - one night - Oct. 28, 1888. The To the rear of the auditorium stands a large, pot-bellied stove which was and all woodwork is being repainted 'theatrical red' as it originally was. The restoration committee had already put in much hard work, planning and money CONDITION DETERIORATED DATE EXCELLENT RUINS UNALTERED iron fire escape.
XALTERED FAIR around the building.The display windows each have stone lintels with a placed.The double wooden doors each have four panes and there is an eight structure. The first floor of the building houses a number of shops and has CHECK ONE cornice level. The roof is hipped and there are centrally placed chimneys on _UNEXPOSED The walls of the dressing rooms are covered with the names of plays and the the west side there is a doorway on the second floor which is reached by a plain, used for plays and public meetings and is a source of much civic pride. - MOVED *GOOD the north and west sides. The theater entrance is on the north side, centrally pane transom. The doorway is flat-arched, as are the upper story windows. On in an effort to preserve the nostalgia of the late 1800's.
The theater will be casts, along with comments about the audience reaction. One inscription of originally stoked with wood, but was converted to gas at a later date.
intact - its stage, dressing rooms, decor, seats, and even its heating system - but the original stage sets, normally very perishable, are present also. Thomas Edward West, a recent performer at the Hayesville Opera House which states: man evening, 'Mark Twain: Member-At-Large For the Human Race' throughout the banded together to preserve, restore and use this historic theater. 1886 POLITICS/GOVERNMENT INVENTION ECONOMICS EDUCATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD LITERATURE LAW PHILOSOPHY ARCHITECTURE PREHISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT floor.
MILITARY AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY ARCHEOLUGY-PREHISTORIC graduations.The older members of the community remember seeing the first 1900- X_THEATER _CONSERVATION true of the theatre....yet countless old playhouses and lyceum theatres are drops....these alone are worth the support of state and federal preservation." theatrical heritage.Not only is much of the physical portion of this theater X1800-1899 _ENGINEERING the influence which our past heritage has upon the present; this is especially was set up on the sidewalk below since no electricity had yet been installed.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001364, 16 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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