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Photograph of Marcus Curtiss Inn
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Curtiss, Marcus, Inn

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

“The Marcus Curtiss Inn is a historic house and post office located near Galena in Genoa Township, Delaware County, Ohio, United States. A native of Connecticut, Curtiss moved to present-day Genoa Township in 1808, becoming the first settler in the area, along with his family, his brother's family, and a third family who also moved from Connecticut.”

Wikipedia article Marcus Curtiss Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

one of 49 National Register listings in Delaware County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. E of Galena at 3860 Sunbury Rd., Galena, 43021
  • When was it listed? 1976-12-12
  • Category. building
  • Township. Genoa township
  • National Register reference number. 76001415 - 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.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 2,540 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 2,540 specimens collected within 10 miles of Curtiss, Marcus, Inn between 1850 and 1975: 2,398 Animalia, 78 Fungi, 62 Plantae, 1 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A C Whitney, A S BRADSHAW, 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.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of unnamed1896F. L. StevensFlint.
Specimen of Dothidea Fr., 1818Dothidea Fr., 18181896F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Hypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) CookeHypoxylon atropunctatum (Schwein.) Cooke1896A. P. MorganPreston
A photograph of the species Ectopistes migratorius, not of this specimenEctopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766)1850Kugel, B. (Burt)near Selma, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1860Ricke, A. S.Carlisle, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Centronyx henslowii, not of this specimenCentronyx henslowii (Audubon, 1829)1872not recordedLicking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Ophioglossum vulgatum, not of this specimenOphioglossum vulgatum L.1873Hussey, J.
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1874not recordedSugar Grove, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Branta bernicla, not of this specimenBranta bernicla hrota (O.F.Müller, 1776)1874not recordedLake Erie, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Melospiza lincolnii, not of this specimenMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834)1874Wheaton, J. M. (John Maynard)Licking Reservoir, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Phalaropus lobatus, not of this specimenPhalaropus lobatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1874Jasper, T. (Theodore)Columbus, Scioto R., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Tympanuchus americanus, not of this specimenTympanuchus americanus (Reichenbach, 1852)1874not recordedMonroeville, Ohio, USA

All 2,540 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Curtiss, Marcus, Inn: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Galena PitClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Vans Valley Road PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Storms near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galena, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000Thunderstorm WindGalena$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused damaged to a home and 2 houses under construction.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindGalena$4,000Powerlines and a transformer were blown down.
September 2020Thunderstorm WindGalena$3,000Multiple trees were downed on Mill Run Drive.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Galena$3,000The tornado touched down and moved briefly along Big Walnut Road near the Hoover Reservoir. Trees were damaged along the path due to the tornado. In addition, a few shingles were torn off of a house. Based on the damage, wind speeds were estimated around 75 miles per hour.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindGalena$3,000A few trees were downed.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGalena$2,000A couple of trees were downed onto State Route 3.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGalena$1,000A tree was knocked down over the road.
May 2020FloodGalena-State Route 3 at Lewis Center Road was closed due to flooding.
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
March 2012HailGalena-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindGalena-no account filed
April 2001HailGalena-no account filed
June 1994HailGalena-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Delaware County

Map coverage status

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

1,641 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

The Marcus Curtiss Inn was the home of one of the first white settlers in Genoa Townhip as well as the first brick home and the first post Marcus Curtiss Inn, one of the earliest surviving inns left in the area. Marcus Curtiss arrived in Genoa Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, in 1808 from Genoa Township. Marcus settled on a 681 acre tract of land on what became his farm. His homesteading and settling was disrupted by the War of 1812 and mail coach stopped there and, in 1825, Marcus Curtiss was granted a license to operate a tavern.

1822 1700-1799 SIGNIFICANCE EDUCATION 1600-1699 LAW AGRICULTURE MILITARY BUILDER/ARCHITECT SCULPTURE PERIOD TRANSPORTATION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC XARCHITECTURE ART _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT X_OTHER(SPECIFY) LITERATURE Marcus Curtiss _COMMUNICATIONS local history _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN in which he served.He completed his home in 1822.It was the first _THEATER _INDUSTRY - ENGINEERING _INVENTION The building has remained in the Curtiss family since it was built. _CONSERVATION _PHILOSOPHY -1500-1599 office in the township.Tradition has it that Lafayette stopped at the - 1400-1499 - ECONOMICS _SCIENCE _1900- _RELIGION - MUSIC With him came his family, his brother and his family and Connecticut. known as Yankee Street.He began to manufacture brick from clay on 9

The whole case file for this property - 1,641 words, 13 pages, reproduced complete.

Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 76001415, 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Keeler, Diadatus, House1.0 miles1979
Sunbury Town Hall3.6 miles1975
Cook, John, Farm3.8 miles1977
Center Inn4.3 miles1983
Sharp, Stephen, House4.8 miles1982
Sharp, Stephen, House4.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware CountyAll 49 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.
  • 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.