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 first blacksmith to open business was Abraham Dyson, who came in 1804. The first mill in the township was built by Lemuel Punderson at the Rapids, in 1807, for Squire Law, of Connecticut, but a flood came in the fall and carried it off.”
History of Portage County, Ohio (1885). Machine-read text.
one of 42 National Register listings in Portage County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001511- 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.
The ground it stands on
6,350 words
The chapter on Hiram Township in History of Portage County, Ohio, published 1885 names Hiram. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
There is some doubt respecting the first settler in Hiram. By some it is thought that Abraham S. Honey, who made the first settlement in Mantua, was the man, and that he came as early as 1799, but that cannot be, for he, with his brother-in-law, Rufus Edwards, settled in Mantua, or at least made some improvements there, in the fall of 1798. Mr. John Harmon, one of the first settlers in Mantua, was under the impression that a man named William W. Williams came in the spring of 1799, built a cabin and made a clearing, but that he soon after left and settled in Cuyahoga County, where, in 1800, he built the first mill in that county. The truth, possibly, of this matter is, that when Honey left Mantua, which he did about 1802, he stopped during the spring or summer in Hiram, made a small clearing and built a cabin, but getting tired of the country, went away in the fall to Cuyahoga, where it is known that he lived several years.
In 1818, early in January, Daniel Hampton came from Trumbull County and settled on the west part of the east half of Lot 33, and about the 23d of the same month Samuel Udall, John Johnson, Martin Miller, Charles Loomis and Thomas Cowen left Pomfret and Hartford, Vt., with their families, which were all large, bound for Hiram. Udall had four yoke of oxen, three horses and a cow. The rest were also supplied well with oxen and horses. The weather was cold, the snow was deep, and they were six weeks on the road. Arriving in Hiram March 4, 1818, Udall settled on the west halves of Lots 24 and 27, Johnson on the west ends of Lots 22 and 39, Miller on the west half of Lot 36, Loomis on the middle part of Lot 39, and Cowen moved into a cabin owned by Richard Kedden. In the following summer came Gideon Cbapin, Lemuel Herrick, Miles T. Norton, Joel Button, Elisha Taylor, Horace A. Loomis, Curtis Eggleston, Truman Brace, Capt. William Harris and Charles H. Paine, the last-named moving in the fall to Freedom, and becoming the first settler of that township.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Young, Thomas F., House between
2020 and 2020, burning about 1 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
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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 294 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Young, Thomas F., House between 1884 and
1974: 196 Animalia, 94 Plantae, 4 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. Woolman, Allen, John, Brobst, P. 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 Young, Thomas F., House: 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
Hiram, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
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.
During the evening hours of July 4th, a F0 tornado touched down in Portage County. This tornado touched down about three miles west of Hiram, and tracked mainly through an open field causing no damage to structures or crops. Spotter reports indicated that the tornado lifted just to the west of Hiram which was confirmed by evidence found by a damage survey team.
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
1,798 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
This is a two-story frame house with an eight-bay facade, plus a portion is the one-and-a-half story section, dated by family record between 1822 and 1826. Originally it was divided into two rooms, with tion, it is not much later than the original section, but it covers an upper window, hence is somewhat later. Greek Revival, ca. 1835-1845 in this location. There is no cellar CONDITION UNEXPOSED EXCELLENT RUINS DETERIORATED DESCRIPTION CHECK ONE XGOOD XALTERED smaller rooms. in this part.The exterior is sheathed with horizontal clapboard three bays on the west were added.A second doorway is narrower, a fireplace at the north end.The attic story had two sleeping rooms. the east rooms are higher than those of the west ones.The west The five east bays of the front section were added next.
The room was the barroom when the house was operated as an inn. siding.The end gables have typical mid-Greek Revival cornice but it conforms in style to the one described.
XORIGINAL SITE The main doorway leads to a center stairhall.The ceilings of On the second floor part of the front wing was one large room returns instead of full pediments.Ata still later date,the additional _UNALTERED ably at the time the front wing was built.The next section was the date is not documented, but the style of the doorway, with four pilasters, sidelights and a heavy entablature, is that of the mature which was used as a ballroom, but it has been divided into two The first floor partition was removed to make one large room, presum- one-story wing containing the kitchen and pantry.Of similar construc- "T"wing with two sections of one-and-a-half and one story.The oldest AREAS OF
Statement of significance
1600-1699 1400-1499 1700-1799 ENGINEERING LAW ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC RELIGION POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PERIOD TRANSPORTATION _COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMICS EDUCATION clerk. AGRICULTURE SCIENCE SIGNIFICANCE 1900- THEATER MILITARY INVENTION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT This house is significant in village history because it was built to his daughter Lydia Tilden Young.Thomas F.Young arrived from stood west of the present house.The second son Clinton was born his father-in-law Daniel Tilden, the original proprietor of the township, _1500-1599 has served only as a private residence. At present it is unoccupied. agents for eastern dealers in hides, and also contracted for the a residence and an inn, and has been owned continuously by the known as Young's Exchange on the Warren to Cleveland route.
XARCHITECTURE _PHILOSOPHY same family for 150 years.Architecturally it is unusual because INDUSTRY of commencements at Hiram College.Since around 1875 the house of the extension of the typical five-bay facade.
carrying of mail.For many years the house served as an inn _CONSERVATION for most of their lives as T.and C.Young.They were purchasing His first son Thomas was born in l822 in a log house which The house was built by Thomas Fitch Young on land given by LITERATURE thirty-six years until his death;and in 1816 he was also the township The use as a hotel seems to have ceased by 1870.For a few XCOMMERCE -MUSIC PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING by one of the first settlers of Hiram Township, it served as both BUILDER/ARCHITECT Thomas Fitch Young ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC more years boarders were kept and dinners served at the time X800-1899 in the present house in 1826.Thomas and Clinton were in business
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001511, 15 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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