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
“Bellville is the only town in Jefterson Township, and is located on the northeast quai'ter of Section 9 and adjoining sections. The first building within the present incorporated limits was the first in the toAvnship, erected in 1808.”
History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the Original Boundaries) ; Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed Comprehensive History of Ohio, Including an Outline History of the Northwest, a Complete History of Richland County ... Miscellaneous Matter, Map of the County, Biographies and Histories of ... the Most Prominent Families, &c., &c. (1880). Machine-read text.
one of 61 National Register listings in Richland County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.76001521- 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.
Wise, from Pennsylvania, northeast quarter of Section 34 ; ^Martin Crow, from Pennsylvania, northwest quarter of Section 26 ; Casper Fitting, northwest quarter of Section 33 ; Thomas Griswold. northwest quarter of Section 30 ; William Casper, from Kentuck}-, northeast quarter of Section 27 ; Benjamin Hennis, northeast quarter of Section 19 ; John Robinson, from Pennsylvania, southwest quarter of Section 11; John Gatton, from Maryland, northeast quarter of Section 13 ; Jacob Culver, from Pennsylvania, northeast quarter of Section 10 ; Barson Sweet, from "V^ermont, northwest quarter of Section 16 ; Abram Vaughn, from ^Maryland, southwest quarter of Section 15 ; James Doughty, from New York, southwest quarter of Section 9 ; Abineal Dodge, from New York, northeast quarter of Section 16 ; Michael Shuey, from Pennsylvania, southeast quarter of Section 6 ; Adam Shafer, from Pennsylvania, southwest quarter of Section 6 ; Christian Aungst, from Virginia, northeast quarter of Section 8 ; Benjamin Potts, from Vermont, southwest quarter of Section 7 ; Chancy D. Wright, wheelwright, in Bellville ; John Weaver, from A'irginia. northeast quarter of Section 18 ; B. F. Thrailkill. from Maryland, northeast quarter of Section 28 ; Caleb Selb}-, southeast quarter of Section 19 ; Gideon Cornwall, from Virginia, northwest quarter of Section 1 5 ; Amos Hartly, from Mar3-land, northwest quarter of Section 31 ; Peter Boham, southwest quarter of Section 20 ; John McDowel, northeast quarter of Section 21 ; William Mahagan, from Mar^-land, southwest quarter of Section 31 ; Peter Strine ; Samuel Bevo, northeast quarter of Section 31 ; Thomas Durbin, from Virginia, southeast quarter of Section 9 ; Scott Durbin, from Virginia, southeast quarter of Section 9 ; William Price, northeast quarter of Section 16 ; John Fordney ; Philip 3Ierring, from New York, southwest quarter of Section 4 ; Phineas ^lerring (wheelwright), from New Jersey, southwest quarter of Section 4 ; Timotliy Evarts, from A^ennont. southeast quarter of
Section 22 ; Geo. Aimgst, from Virginia, southeast quarter of Section 1 5 ; John Fowler, southwest quarter of Section 14 ; John Boham, northeast quarter of Section 20 ; Robert Bell, Sr., and Robert Bell Jr., from New Jersey, northeast quarter of Section 0 ; Zephaniah Bell, northwest quarter of Section 4 ; John Study, from Pennsylvania, southwest quarter of Section 25 ; John "Watson, southeast quarter of Section 7 ; Joseph Hix, from Pennsylvania, northeast quarter of Section 25 ; Henry Swank, from Pennsylvania, northwest quarter of Section 34 ; James Selb}', southeast quarter of Section 19 ; Jacob Stout, from Pennsylvania, northwest quarter of Section 7 ; Jonathan Oldfleld, came to township in 1808, from New York, northeast quarter of Section 22 ; William Oldfield, came in 1810, from New York, southeast quarter of Section 16 ; Samuel Oldfield, came in 1810, from New York, northeast quarter of Section 16 ; John Weirick, came in 1809, from Maryland, northwest quarter of Section 17 ; Peter Weirick, came in 1809, from Mar^dand, southwest quarter of Section 8 ; John Zent, Sr., came in 1810, from Pennsylvania, northwest quarter of Section 9 ; John Zent, Jr., came in 1810, from Pennsylvania, southwest quarter of Section 7 ; Duncan Spear, came in 1810, from Vermont, southwest quarter of Section 15 ; William Spear, came in 1810, shoemaker in Bellville ; Abraham Smith, in 1810, from Vermont, northwest quarter of Section 22 ; John Leedy, came in 1811, from Pennsylvania, northwest quarter of Section 35.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Bellville Village Hall between
2005 and 2018, burning about 10 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
4
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 655 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Bellville Village Hall between 1835 and
1973: 470 Plantae, 177 Animalia, 8 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A.M.H., Aknown, Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) & Berra, T. M. (Tim M.) 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Bellville Village Hall: 2 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. 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.
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
1,693 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
heads, the window sash and casements and the cave brackets were in a"battle-ship" of wrought iron fence where tihe balcony had been. CONDITION EXCELLENT MOVED DATE DETERIORATED UNALTERED DESCRIPTION XGOOD FAIR story lean-to on the south-west corner. The window heads are galvanized metal with cast iron applique and are pediments the building with dark trim and a long-vanished balcony.The balcony which was wood turnings are below the white painted eaves.The north elevation includes second floor.The east elevation has the entrances to the mayor's and treasurer's made locally and the foundation and cornerstones are of a buff colored local sandstone.
CHECK ONE always decorative was reachieved recently (l973) by the mounting of an old section entrances to the town policeman's office, and the stairs to the Lyceum on the anything but storage since the 1920's.The Lyceum has hardwood floors and board _UNEXPOSED -RUINS 4 bay by 6 bay, has been cleaned and repainted several times. restoration, the jail however is still intact. The second floor, the Lyceum, two feet on all sides. Brackets made of composites of jig sawn planed lumber and superimposed The brick was hand The exterior of the building is in good condition. The brick bearing-wall structure, and bead paneling; the windows have interior shutters still primarily intact.
The low hipped roof is covered with standing seam metal roof and projects about The interior of the first floor has been much remodeled with no attempt at isa large space with a raised stage at the east end.It has not been used for AREAS OF
Statement of significance
between the village leaders, township officials, local constabulary, the amateur theatrical groups, ladies' self-improvers, and so on are seen a gamut of entertainments - from lectures on the evils of Mormonism Township and its only village, Bellville, were beginning to return to 1876 ART X1800-1899 PERIOD LAW BUILDER/ARCHITECT PHILOSOPHY AGRICULTURE RELIGION ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY ARCHITECTURE SIGNIFICANCE SCULPTURE MILITARY 1900- second floor facilities. _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _CONSERVATION ECONOMICS offices and also to provide a meeting place for the villages various _PREHISTORIC major part of the Bellville citizenry.
The first village hall had burnt before the Civil War and Jefferson It is significant that one building could successfully, for so long, The building is on the town square and is still central to the to the cinematic Perils of Pauline. _COMMERCE _COMMUNICATIONS serve as the major meeting place of the community.The cooperation -1700-1799 dedicated in 1876); Lyceum and Opera House come from the use of the -EDUCATION was erected by Lewis L.Garber (b.1832),John L.Garber (b.1826), -1500-1599 -LITERATURE - SCIENCE -MUSIC -_1400-1499 their earlier prosperity. The village council proposed building and others from the village.The Garber descendents constitute a activities of the village of less than 2,000 citizens.The building embodied in this structure.The small stage on the second floor has
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001521, 14 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.
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