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
“Hughes School is a historic school building near Hamilton, Ohio, United States.”
Wikipedia article Hughes School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 63 National Register listings in Butler County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Butler County.
National Register reference number.76001377- 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.
Mr. McLean came to Butler County in 1808, and settled on Seven-Mile, Wayne Township, where he purchased a hundred acres of land. He came down the Ohio River in a flat-boat. He traded his farm in Pennsylvania for castings and sold them in Cincinnati, and with their proceeds purchased here. He died in Union Township, September 12, 1824, and his wife died September 27, 1834, in Springfield Township, Hamilton County. His son, John McLean, was born February 13, 1810, in Wayne Township, and married first, January 3, 1843, Sarah R. Clayton, born in Liberty May 5, 1813, and died September 19, 1847. They had one child, Anna Isabella, born November 3, 1844. She died June 3, 1846. He married second, November 20, 1850, Mary Ann Beatty, daughter of John R. Beatty and Nancy (Stewart) Beatty. She was born in Liberty, December 29, 1814. By her he had three children, one being now alive, Lewis. He was born October 18, 1852, and is married. John A., born January 7, 1855, died an infant; and William C., born March 6, 1860, died August 5, 1881.
The mail was carried, prior to 1834, by Dr. Stephens, on horseback, from Brookville to Lebanon. Abner Ross had the contract also, and sometimes went with his oxen, making the round-trip in one week. He went by the way of Lasourdsville and Hamilton, to Brookville, Indiana, and would return by the way of Hamilton, Princeton, and Huntsville to Lebanon. Dr. Stephens had the office up to 1834, Squire McLean to 1841, at which time it was moved to Bethany. Peter Williamson then took it and kept it a long time.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 425 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hughes School between 1835 and
1975: 362 Animalia, 37 Plantae, 25 Fungi, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. C. Billups, A.R. Gaufin, H.H. Ross, Arden R. Gaufin 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
1 working within 5 miles of Hughes School: 1 past producer.
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
Hamilton, the town this property stands in, in 63 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 thunderstorm wind, 23 hail, 13 flash flood, 1 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.
Street flooding occurred along Western Avenue and several other roadways in the Highland Park neighborhood of Hamilton. Water was as deep as 3 feet in some locations.
Hundreds of trees and some power lines were downed. Some of the trees fell across State Route 4, to the southeast of Hamilton. Power was out to around 30,000 customers shortly after the storm.
Flash flooding, several feet deep, occurred at several intersections in Hamilton, including Main St. and Lawn St., Franklin St. and Edgewood St., and Eaton St. and Rhea St.
1 paper published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
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
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
1,713 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
windows are also slightly arched. Above the slit windows the header bricks are laid in vertical rows, creating a decorative boarder) either side öf the tower is a six över six double hung window with CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT DETERIORATED RUINS UNALTERED building. CHECK ONE windows have stone sills and are slightly curved at the top with a committee to restore this structure with a copy of the original tower. The roof of the bell tower was supported by square wooden piers and A large, brick chimney occupies the blind bay on the west side of the The roof is gabled with an easy pitch. Hughes School is a rectangular, one room brick structure with a stone The brick is laid in common bond.
it conforms to the shape of the arch of the entrance.A keystone has windows the header bricks are again used to form a decorative boarder. Awide stone string course runs around the entire building between A band of brick also runs the length of the building under the eaves. XFAIR each side of the roof.It is the intention of the restoration the building has.been altered by the addition of a wood lean-to shed. been placed in the center of the brick arch and stone has also been used the brick and the stone foundation. Above the door the brick is laid so that shutters that are louvered at the top and paneled at the bottom. the double door with a slightly rounded light above the doors. The light to cap each end of the arch.
Immediately above the keystone is an was pyramid shaped with small triangular dormers projecting from is divided into four panes. the windows the brick forms slightly projecting pilasters.
Hughes School represents an exceptionally fine example of nineteenth Hughes Station located on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and 1500-1599 1600-1699 LAW 1400-1499 PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC SCIENCE RELIGION ENGINEERING SIGNIFICANCE unknown BUILDER/ARCHITECT XEDUCATION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC TRANSPORTATION PERIOD AGRICULTURE MILITARY ART _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PREHISTORIC XARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE numerous in this locality and the owner was continuously menaced by them. SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _1700-1799 _CONSERVATION associated with some of the area's earliest history.
five children.A neighbor of the Hughes family in Maryland had come to Indianapolis Railroad was named for the Joshua Hughes, sone of Elijah, who was he that he was soon controlling the business of the entire countryside. Butler County some time previously and had purchased l6o acres of land owned the land the town was built on and was the towns first postmaster.
preachers, and these traveling divines would come from loo miles around to _COMMUNICATIONS It was rule of his never to charge for any work that he did for the early Deciding to return to the more civilized east, he sold his property to the area's earliest settlers, the Hughes Family, and is therefore, THEATER In 1832,Nicholas Curtis gave the Hughes School property located in Butler _1900- X1800-1899 LITERATURE as a momento of early education in rural ohio. -MUSIC Elijah Hughes was 1887 INVENTION get their horses shod at the shop of this sturdy pioneer's smith". Hughes School stands as a monument to this early pioneer family.
School District No.4.Elijah Hughes was a school director of the district at that time and ismentioned in the As an example of "a little red school house", Hughes School can be seen Sarah Muchner in 1800 and they came to Butler County in the 1820's with
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001377, 12 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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